Quotes on Pretending

I've tried to believe, but I don't, I can't, and there's no use pretending.

The problem of pretending to be alive.

We're [parents]) always bluffing, pretending we know best, when most of the time we're just praying we won't screw up too badly.

From the night Buddy Willard kissed me and said I must go out with a lot of boys, he made me feel I was much more sexy and experienced than he was and that everything he did like hugging and kissing and petting was simply what I made him feel like doing out of the blue, he couldn’t help it and didn’t know how it came about. Now I saw he had only been pretending all this time to be so innocent.

You know, there's something heartsick about parties like this. Look at us. We're all pretending to be smart, as if intelligence were the cure for our anguish.

What incensed him the most was the blatant jokes of the ones that passed it all off as a jest, pretending to understand everything and in reality not knowing their own minds.

Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.

To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you’re not, pretend you are.