#pretend

My father and I used to tussle about me becoming an actor. He's from strong, Presbyterian Scottish working-class stock, and he used to sit me down and say, 'You know, 99 percent of actors are out of work. You've been educated, so why do you want to spend your life pretending to be someone else when you could be your own man?' ↗

— Tom Hiddleston

#actor #becoming #been #could #down

A superstition which pretends to be scientific creates a much greater confusion of thought than one which contents itself with simple popular practices. ↗

— Johan Huizinga

#contents #creates #greater #itself #much

I do not pretend to write much of a letter. You know under what circumstances I am writing. ↗

— Joshua Chamberlain

#circumstances #i #i am #i do #know

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

There is a lot of rubbish written about toilet humour - people saying it is childish and pretending it is beneath them - but there is no doubting the effectiveness of a really good willy gag. ↗

— Adrian Edmondson

#beneath #childish #doubting #effectiveness #gag

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

— Brendan Fraser

#approach #comedy #funny #i #i always

You have to pretend that your life is a financial pleasure even when your autographs are bouncing. ↗

— Kinky Friedman

#bouncing #even #financial #life #life is a

The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#anything #assert #beliefs #body #consciousness

A diva is someone who pretends to know who she is and looks fabulous doing it. ↗

— Jenifer Lewis

#doing #fabulous #know #looks #pretends

The thing with pretending you're in a good mood is that sometimes you can. ↗

— Charles de Lint

#good mood #mood #pretending #sometimes #thing