#pretending

I hate crowds of people pretending to be happy on one night of the year, where they get drunk and obnoxious by the end of the night. ↗

— Kenny Hickey

#crowds #drunk #end #get #happy

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

I was not extremely patriotic about Mother Russia. I played their game, pretending. You have to deal with, you know, party people, KGB. Horrifying. ↗

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

#deal #extremely #game #horrifying #i

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

— David Mamet

#conservative #gay #get #greater #liberal

It's not that Shakespeare is frivolous, but you spend your time just getting people to dress up in other people's costumes and pretending to be people that they're not, and you think, after the years go by, well, what on earth was all that about? ↗

— Jonathan Miller

#after #costumes #dress #earth #frivolous

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. ↗

— James Gandolfini

#else #grown #grown man #living #make

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

— Ben Kingsley

#deeply #else #fortunate #gain #had

I'm not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I'm doing. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#i #know #pretending

That is a strange phenomenon, people pretending to be other people. ↗

— Andy Samberg

#people #phenomenon #pretending #strange

Women can go on marrying and pretending that their boyfriends and husbands are Mr. Darcy or some RomCom dream man. But where's that going to get 'em? Besides divorce court? ↗

— Dan Savage

#court #divorce #dream #get #go