Pretend Quotes

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.

Emotions don’t interfere in my acting, nor in my life.

And I wasn’t playing a role – I was trying to be myself.
But the harder I was striving, the more I was realizing that I had probably lost that ‘myself’ somewhere between two perfectly performed roles...

Chameleonesque, hobbitish, unicorned, stompled, selfishism, and unwakeable may not be real words, but you do know what they mean.

I think sometimes when we find love we pretend it away, or ignore it, or tell ourselves we’re imagining it. Because it is the most painful kind of hope there is.

If I behave as though this is a completely normal situation, then maybe it will be ...

It's easier to fake it. When you fake it for sixteen years, it becomes part of you, something you don't think about.

Never pretend to be who you are not. It doesn't take long before the truth gets revealed and you'll be left hurt with the results.

Don't. Don't let's pretend when there's no one around.

I have always been quite good at falling in love, but I don’t pretend to know anything about literal happily ever afters. 

Everyone changes so slowly, they don't even know that they have. And everyone likes to pretend that things are just the same yet they look at you like you could bring something back that's supposed to already be here. But home is a time. Not just a place.

And for a price, I will pretend absolutely nothing.

There are things
that make no sense,
that seem unreal,
that can’t be grasped
or understood
or explained,
that maybe don’t even exist…
And still, somehow, those wonderful things touch and change our lives.
Isn’t it strange?

Imagine fantasy and pretend as neither fantastical nor pretended.....and then believe it.

Don't ever quit pretending.

We live in a world full of people who are satisfied with pretending to be someone they are not.

The best way to not get your heart broken, is pretending you don't have one.

It's always comforting to tell yourself things are going to be alright, because even if a part of you senses that you're lying, it's comforting to shut it out- shut out reality and pretend- because pretending is nice.

Reality is a background so painted over by our own perceptions that every eye sees the world differently.

On top of the abuse and neglect, denial heaps more hurt upon the child by requiring the child to alienate herself from reality and her own experience. In troubled families, abuse and neglect are permitted; it's the talking about them that is forbidden.