I'm pretending to be a vegetarian. Were I not, I believe I probably still wouldn't eat a wallaby.

If no one figures out you are pretending to be retarded, your life will be greeted with treasure.

I find it interesting that there are impostors out on the Internet pretending to be Werner Herzog.

I wouldn't say I'm a feminist, but I don't like girls pretending to be stupid because it's easier.

If you keep pretending you're in that book, it will make you not want to live in the life you're in.

When you're pretending to be something you're not, at least for me, you end up falling on your face.

I think any hardship is better than pretending to do what one is paid for, and never really doing it.

I panic at parties. I don't like talking absolutely nothing and pretending, so I'm quite odd socially.

It's time to stop pretending I'm ok with things I'm not ok with like all insects and Foster the People.

Pretending to be other people is my game and that to me is the essence of the whole business of acting.

It is not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute.

My life is actually empty, so I feel like I'm lying to everyone by pretending to be happy on the outside.

The artist makes his living by pretending, by putting it in a meaningful hole though no such holes exist.

Acting isn't necessarily pretending. It's storytelling. It's giving someone your perspective on something.

I'm a performer. I'm pretending to be someone else. I'm not putting my own self into the show every night.

There is more freedom confessing our weaknesses and shortcomings than in pretending we have it all together

I'm not a liar, sir,' she said. "'No, I'm sure you sincerely become whatever it is you're pretending to be.

I got attention by being funny at school, pretending to be retarded, and jumping around with a deformed hand.

The finest thing about a hobby is that you can't do any pretending about it. You either like it or you don't.

All your life you pretend to be someone else, and it turns out that you were someone else pretending to be you.

If it doesn't work horizontally as prose... it probably won't work any better vertically pretending to be poetry.

Because sometimes when things are going really well, we find the one thing we're pretending we're not looking for.

Putting somebody else's pants on and pretending to be somebody else is occasionally, as you grow older, horrifying.

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

If you can truly believe what you are pretending to do is really happening, then your audience will believe it, too.

In my experience, the hardest thing about having someone "come out" to you is the "pretending to be surprised" part.

As a kid, you run around the house pretending to be a superhero, and now to be doing it as a job, I feel very lucky.

I'm sorry and ashamed to report that I'm not actually a Jew. I was pretending to be a Jew to minimize the holocaust.

We sing in English, not mimicking some American rock singer's accent. That's just pretending to be something you ain't.

Marlon once said to me about being an actor: Can you imagine going to work every day and pretending to be someone else?

I didn't realize that pretending to be this 'Hills Heidi,' this spoiled rich girl who I wasn't, would almost destroy me.

A liberal pretending to be a conservative? That's like a straight person pretending to be gay to get greater acceptance.

I don't think it is important to be a role model, because if you are a role model, you are pretending to be someone else.

I love anything that kind of removes me from myself and employs something else. So, I love accents and I love pretending.

We come to the nations pretending to escape persecution, we the most deadly persecutors in all the wretched annals of man.

Now all of a sudden I'm so less interested in pretending to be a lot of other people, and much more interested in being me.

He actually listened, rather than pretending to listen while waiting a suitable interval before it was his time to talk again.

I've never had to turn my hand to anything for monetary gain, other than pretending to be somebody else. I'm deeply fortunate.

I'm from really humble beginnings. I've never been this Hollywood diva, but you get caught up in what you're pretending to be.

A snob is that man or woman who is always pretending to be something better--especially richer or more fashionable--than he is.

Standing in public in other people's clothes, pretending to be someone else. It's a strange way for a grown man to make a living.

As much as I love a smart kid who can spell nicely, I love a giggling kid wrapped in loo roll pretending to be a mummy even more.

I had no real idea I was going to become a writer. It was just a game for me. I just liked pretending, daydreaming and imagining.

While it is always possible to wake a person who's sleeping, no amount of noise will wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.

I'm not pretending to be somebody who's got really limited craft skills. I just am a person who's got really limited craft skills.

And they have a display of bananas, which are not bananas but called plantains and are more like a potato pretending to be a banana.

The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be.

Doing animation is closer to pretending than anything else you get to do. It's much more like when you're a kid putting on a character.

Socially, I never belonged to any class, rich or poor. To the rich I was poor, and to the poor I was poor pretending to be like the rich.

Being present means being completely aware of all that is. It means you’re not in denial, you’re not pretending, and you’re not avoiding.

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