Pretending Quotes

Pretending Quote of the day

Live without pretending, love without depending, listen without defending, speak without offending.

There is more freedom confessing our weaknesses and shortcomings than in pretending we have it all together

Be real, because a mask only fools people on the outside. Pretending to be someone you're not takes a toll on the real you, and the real you is more important than anyone else.

Many people never grow up. They stay all their lives with a passionate need for external authority and guidance, pretending not to trust their own judgment.

Don't give to anyone the power to put you down. Haters are losers pretending to be winners.

In the end, worship can never be a performance, something you're pretending or putting on. It's got to be an overflow of your heart...Worship is about getting personal with God, drawing close to God.

I'm tired of pretending like I'm not bitching, a total fricking rock star from Mars...

The finest thing about a hobby is that you can't do any pretending about it. You either like it or you don't.

A magician is only an actor - an actor pretending to be a magician.

I'd rather live my life knowing that I'm not perfect than spend my whole life pretending to be.

Wearing a mask wears you out. Faking it is fatiguing. The most exhausting activity is pretending to be what you know you aren't.

Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending. We've done just what we set out to do. Thanks to the lovers, the dreamers and you.

Don't go on pretending to be someone you are not

Certainly I've lived my whole life through my imagination. But the world of imagination is there for all of us--a sense of play, of pretending, of wonder. It's there with us as we live.

In short? It is exhausting being me. Pretending to be normal is draining and requires amazing amounts of energy and Xanax.

You don't get anything worth getting, by pretending to know things you don't know.

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

Confidence is very important - even pretending to be confident. If you make a mistake but do not let your opponent see what you are thinking then he may overlook the mistake.

Hate me for who I am, I don't care. At least I'm not pretending to be someone I'm not.

Pretending that we live doesn't make us alive.

The world should be worried about those who go around the planet with a can of gasoline in one hand and a box of matches in the other, pretending to sell fire insurance.

To understand pretending is to conquer all barriers of time and space.

Pretending is a very valuable life skill.

It's all that pretending to be perfect that breeds inauthenticity in the church.

The world is full of actors pretending to be human

Half the trouble in life is caused by pretending there isn't any.

I don't really believe in pretending to be happy when you're not. Mostly I believe that you should burden your friends with your problems.

There are many, and there will be many, who will gladly purchase eternal life for a small price, if they see that others are fighting for God in earnest, rather than pretending to do so.

You're pretending this isn't your life. You think it's going to happen some other time. When you're dead you'll realise you were alive now.

I'm tired of pretending that everything's fine just so I can please everyone else.

What is it in us that makes us feel the need to keep pretending... we gotta let ourselves be.

Pretending to be a princess is fun, but it is definitely not a career.

I got attention by being funny at school, pretending to be retarded, and jumping around with a deformed hand.

Love is being honest with yourself at all times being honest with the other person at all times telling, listening, respecting the truth and never pretending Love is the source of reality

I always felt a bit alone and isolated from other people...I did a lot of pretending as a child. It was my way of coping with the fact that I didn't feel like I fit in.

Pretending to be other people is my game and that to me is the essence of the whole business of acting.

The only good in pretending is the fun we get out of fooling ourselves that we fool somebody.

Hey @justinbieber, how much are you paying your friend for pretending that it was HIS cocaine, and taking the fall for you?

It's much more interesting to embrace who you really are rather than waste energy pretending to be someone else.

You're like this leopard who's pretending to be a house cat.

Nature's action is complex: and nothing is gained in the long run by pretending that it is simple, and trying to describe it in a series of elementary propositions.

Feeling confident - or pretending that you feel confident - is necessary to reach for opportunities. It's a cliché, but opportunities are rarely offered; they're seized.

Hypocrisy is not a way of getting back to the moral high ground. Pretending you're moral, saying your moral is not the same as acting morally.

I liked pretending to be other people: I could reinvent myself, reinvent my own reality.

I thought you were supposed to be pretending I don’t exist, not irritating me to death.

Kill every enemy twice, Wilky said. Better than gettin' shot by a soldier pretending to be dead.

I wonder what you look like under your t-shirt. I wonder what you sound like when you're not wearing words. I wonder what we have when we're not pretending.

Anybody pretending to be anything other than who you really are-you will never, ever reach your personal potential.

I was the youngest child and really spoiled. I loved to play make-believe. I loved pretending to be all kinds of different people and it just seemed natural that I would go into acting.

As a kid, you run around the house pretending to be a superhero, and now to be doing it as a job, I feel very lucky.