#pretending

A lot of my audience are in their 50s. But they want me to pretend to continue to be pretending. ↗

— Pete Townshend

#continue #lot #me #pretend #pretending

I knew when I grew up, I always wanted to be a liar, and if you're in television, you're lying because you're just pretending to be yourself much like I'm doing now. ↗

— John Ritter

#be yourself #because #doing #grew #i

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

— James Gandolfini

#grow #horrifying #occasionally #older #pants

You've seen how they make movies like Star Wars and stuff. They're never really there. They're in front of a green screen just pretending to be jumping around. ↗

— Rider Strong

#front #green #green screen #how #jumping

We're actors in our lives, pretendin' to be who we want people to think we are. ↗

— Simone Elkeles

#pretending #think

But maybe happiness isn't in the choosing. Maybe it's in the fiction, in the pretending: that wherever we have ended up is where we intended to be all along. ↗

— Lauren Oliver

#pretending #fiction

So from then on, he looked at all his choices and said, What would a good person do, and then did it. But he has now learned something very important about human nature. If you spend your whole life pretending to be good, then you are indistinguishable from a good person. Relentless hypocrisy eventually becomes the truth. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#good-people #human-nature #hypocrisy #pretending #roles

But I think the only thing that annoys me about that is if I suddenly find someone on commercial radio or something like that, mimicking my voice or actions and trying to promote a product and pretending it's me doing it. ↗

— Richie Benaud

#actions #annoys #commercial #doing #find

A large part of acting is just pretending. You get to work with these other great make-believers, all making believe as hard as they can. ↗

— Jeff Bridges

#believe #get #great #hard #just

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