#pretend

You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you fear you are an interchangeable cog. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#because #cog #eccentric #fear #interchangeable

Pretend to be dumb, that's the only way to reach old age. ↗

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

#dumb #old #old age #only #pretend

I always approach comedy roles pretending they aren't funny. ↗

— Brendan Fraser

#approach #comedy #funny #i #i always

I was the eldest daughter with these four beautiful younger sisters with ringlets and pretty faces, and I used to dress them up in Victorian clothes and take them out for the day and pretend they were mine. ↗

— Sadie Frost

#clothes #daughter #day #dress #eldest

China is a civilization pretending to be a nation. ↗

— Michael Ledeen

#civilization #nation #pretending

As a kid I used to pretend I was John Denver, of all people, and play the guitar and sing Take Me Home, Country Roads. ↗

— Skeet Ulrich

#denver #guitar #home #i #john

My former bullies pay extra to come backstage and meet me after shows, and I pretend not to know them in front of their friends. It is the most divine pleasure to exact the revenge of the brutalized child that resides within. ↗

— Margaret Cho

#backstage #brutalized #bullies #child #come

My parents are very funny when they have to deal with anything racy or off-color. They usually pretend they don't speak English. ↗

— Margaret Cho

#deal #english #funny #parents #pretend

I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don't hurt me, because it is me. If it was not me, if I was pretending to be someone else, then this could unbalance my world, but I know who I am. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#because #could #critics #else #hurt

Hear the birds? Sometimes I like to pretend that I'm deaf and I try to imagine what it's like not to be able to hear them. It's not that bad. ↗

— Larry David

#bad #birds #deaf #hear #i