Pretending Quotes - Page 7

• I've wasted a lot of time pretending to be interested in people who weren't terribly interesting.

  David Sedaris

  People, Interesting

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I remember feeling a huge amount of anxiety and worry and pressure. At that point I was headed into acting school. That was 100 percent the only thing I thought I wanted to do. But then I got through my first year of college, and I was, like, humming and rolling around, pretending to be a lion in acting classes at NYU and visiting our classmate Charlie Gregg at Harvard, where he was actually learning things. So I changed my mind: I decided I actually wanted a different kind of education, and that was an incredibly freeing idea.

  Lauren Graham

  School, College, Worry

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I like playing really super-intense, live-in-the-moment characters. It asks me to not phone it in. It's impossible to phone it in. Every American boy has spent his childhood pretending to get shot. 

  Rob Corddry

  Character, Boys, Childhood

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Fashion, at modern time, was actually a way for women to go out in the world. There was one painting of a woman sitting at a café, drinking a beer by herself and kind of pretending to read but really watching people, that sort of thing. It fascinated me.

  Kim Gordon

  Fashion, Drinking, Beer

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• People call me a theater actor, but I'm just an actor. But I tell my friends all the time - especially a lot that do theater and haven't done a lot of TV/film - that you have so much more control over your work onstage. When you go onstage, you can really see the difference between people who can really do it, and people who are just kind of pretending to do it. There is no editor, there's nothing that's going to stop the actor from showing what they can do unless it's not a well-written role.

  Viola Davis

  People, Over You, Done

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• I just like a good, honest personality. I like a real person, not somebody who is pretending to be something that they're not. That really annoys me.

  Lara Stone

  Real, Personality, Honest

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Rip Torn thought I was being a wise guy, and one afternoon he got pretty angry with me after telling me to do something and he thought I was pretending like I didn't know what he meant.But he was very frustrated. He was very frustrated as a director in trying to get his little theater group going. It was called The Sanctuary Theater Workshop, I think, and he wanted to do these classical plays by people like August Strindberg, and he was fighting hard to get his show up and be good and be professional.

  John Heard

  Wise, Rip, Fighting

  Source: tv.avclub.com

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• If you know what it is before you even start, it's not as interesting. Central to being an actor is pretending, and the adventure of it all. That's why you become a junkie for different kinds of situations. I try to attach myself to people who really inspire me, and directors who are really passionate. That way, I can give myself more fully and trust the impulse behind why the film is being made, and I can be a little more irresponsible in finding out what the character is. I have to worry less about what the character means if I trust the director.

  Willem Dafoe

  Adventure, Character, Mean

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• Your mind knows your pretending, but, in terms of the adrenaline and the fact that you are actually crying, and that you are that upset, and you are screaming, and you are simulating terror, your body does not know that it is not real. Your body feels really wrecked afterwards.

  Sarah Paulson

  Real, Upset, Mind

  Source: www.etonline.com

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• And so, now things that are important are, for example, the upcoming elections. It's important that society demonstrate that it is not pretending that these elections are elections.

  Mikhail Khodorkovsky

  Important, Election

  Source: www.politico.com

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• We're all going through so much hard, wonderful, amazing . . . it's blessings; it's lessons; it's hardship; it's life. I guess, I don't know what the definition of life is. I now know the meaning of my life, because of my daughters, but mine is one little tiny speck in the universe. It's nice to not be pretending everything is perfect all the time, because it isn't, but I do love happiness and joy and optimism.

  Drew Barrymore

  Daughter, Nice, Blessing

  Source: www.popsugar.com

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• The contortions and games of identity that politicians play on themselves almost everyday is kind of extraordinary. Trump, for instance, speaks like a five-year-old in these vague generalities but then also makes out that he's an expert on everything; he's trying to have his cake and eat it. He's someone who is pretending that he's for the working person but comes from this enormously privileged background.

  Dan Fox

  Everyday, Trying, Identity

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• What are we afraid of? We're afraid of the truth. We're pretending that we live in a democracy, and we're pretending we're free. The insanity is that we live inside of the false stories that we tell each other.

  Jodie Evans

  Insanity, Democracy

  Source: progressive.org

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• Shhhh...right now, all around you, outside your door, down the street, and in every corner of YOUR world... there's evidence of a conspiracy. ALL THE ELEMENTS are secretly marching to the beat... of YOUR drummer... while casually pretending to be detached and indifferent...YOU ARE THAT POWERFUL.

  Mike Dooley

  Change, Powerful, Doors

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• To me, mathematics is like playing the violin. Some people can do it - others can't. If you don't have it, then there's no point in pretending.

  Freeman Dyson

  People, Violin, Mathematics

  "Legendary physicist Freeman Dyson talks about math, nuclear rockets, and astounding things about the universe". Interview with Elena Holodny, www.businessinsider.com. September 9, 2016.

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• I don't see the point of pretending we're clones.

  Eden Robinson

  "The Saturday Rumpus Interview With Eden Robinson". Interview With Helga Schimkat, therumpus.net. September 24, 2016.

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• 'Fact checking' is opinion journalism pretending to be some sort of heightened objectivity.

  James Taranto

  Objectivity, Facts, Opinion

  Twitter post from Sep 25, 2016

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• I remember pretending to be the characters in the movies when I was a little kid.

  Alden Ehrenreich

  Character, Kids, Littles

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I hate these actresses-pretending-to-be-lesbians movies. To me, that's just as prurient as a bad violent movie.

  Robert Englund

  Hate, Actresses, Violent

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I'm crap at pretending to be something I'm not when I'm in my real life.

  Ruth Wilson

  Real, Real Life, Crap

  Interview with John Cameron Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 31, 2016.

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• There is a problem in pretending I can still control my destiny in the commercial market.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Destiny, Problem, Stills

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Because I'm English, I try not to make any purely American references, because I want to limit how much I'm pretending to be American.

  James Hunter

  Trying, Want, Limits

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I get a message from Stephen Falk saying, "Hey, if I wrote a part for you in You're The Worst, would you do it?" I was like, "Yes!" And then, of course, later I found out it's going to be me playing myself sort of Larry Sanders-style where I'm the total opposite of what people would expect me to be. I was just like, "Okay, what the hell." But it's really funny to portray me as somebody who is pretending to be a stoner just to succeed.

  Doug Benson

  Opposites, People, Style

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• [Margaret Thatcher] was pretending that running a country was like running a household, which she knew wasn't true.

  Hilary Mantel

  Running, Country, Household

  Source: newrepublic.com

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• And from the first moment that I ever walked on stage in front of a darkened auditorium with a couple of hundred people sitting there, I was never afraid, I was never fearful, I didn't suffer from stage fright, because I felt so safe on that stage. I wasn't Patrick Stewart, I wasn't in the environment that frightened me, I was pretending to be someone else, and I liked the other people I pretended to be. So I felt nothing but security for being on stage. And I think that's what drew me to this strange job of playing make-believe.

  Patrick Stewart

  Jobs, Couple, Believe

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