#pretending

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #pretending




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

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

Lots of people there seemed to be in denial, in absolute denial, of death - everybody's pretending that death doesn't happen in L.A.; if you do enough exercise and take enough wheatgrass and have your pill every day, you might not die.


Emily Mortimer


#day #death #denial #die #enough

If we remove ourselves from the world, we are pretending that we can follow our own individual enlightenment and let the rest of the world go to hell, so to speak.


Satish Kumar


#follow #go #go to hell #hell #individual

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.


J. K. Rowling


#anything #away #because #began #benefits

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

I've never gone on Facebook and am not sure I understand it. The same goes for Twitter. I have someone sending tweets and pretending to be me, but I don't know why.


David Sedaris


#facebook #goes #gone #i #know

I realized that I wanted to play characters and do traditional theatre. I wanted to make believe again. I like putting on a costume and pretending to be someone else for a few hours, and I have a great respect for playwrights.


Lusia Strus


#believe #characters #costume #else #few

I started being a songwriter pretending I could do it, and it turned out I could.


James Taylor


#could #i #out #pretending #songwriter