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. — Alex Gaskarth
Don't fake it till you make it. Fake it till you become it. — Amy Cuddy
Pretending that we live doesn't make us alive. — Serj Tankian
You've always lived a life of pretense, not a real life-- a simulated existence, not a genuine existence. Everything about you, everything you are, has always been pretense, never genuine, never real. — Thomas Bernhard
Don't front, don't put something out there that you feel isn't realistic and doesn't portray who you are. Just be yourself, be you, and don't be afraid to speak your mind. — Chloe Grace Moretz
When we bluff our way through life, pretending to be who we are not, we end up looking worse than we truly are. — Jay Shetty
It's much more interesting to embrace who you really are rather than waste energy pretending to be someone else. — Sayings
No one can long hide behind a mask; the pretense soon lapses into the true character. — Seneca
If I pretend to myself that I'm different from the way I truly am, I'm going to make choices that won't make me happy. — Gretchen Rubin
Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you? — Fanny Brice
Just be truthful - and if you can fake that, you've got it made. — Barbara Stanwyck
Being who you are is a lot easier than faking it. — Adam Lambert
Aspire to be the man you pretend to be when you're trying to get laid. — Joe Rogan
Unless you can fake sincerity, you'll get nowhere in this business. — Roger Stone
Never be ashamed of what or how you feel... just be honest. — Jaimie Alexander
When you don't know what you're doing, fake it. — Jill Shalvis
A lily or a rose never pretends, and its beauty is that it is what it is. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Don't be something you're not. Unless you can be a fabulous unicorn. Always be a fabulous unicorn. — PewDiePie
Never Pretend Image Quotes
Summer bachelors, like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be. — Nora Ephron
For what it's worth: it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of, and, if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over.
Why Pretend Quotes
I used to imagine it. I used to pretend that my Peugeot driving to the gym in the rain in Dublin was a Ferrari on the Vegas strip. And now that I have that? I can't even describe that feeling. That's why I like the best - the best cars, the best food, the best watches. — Conor McGregor
Make a plan that truly reflects your goals and interests, and you'll be more likely to execute. Why pretend you're going to work out every single day when you know you're only going to do it three times a week? — Tim Grover
Once you start pretending you're someone you're not, to gain the approval of somebody else, you put yourself on a slippery slope. Before long you end up living a life that's not your own and you wonder why you feel so unhappy. A happy life is an authentic life. — Rangan Chatterjee
Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no mater how slow.
It's correct that I'm a bad loser. Why should I lie? If I was good at losing I wouldn't be in Formula 1. I think it's more honest to act how you really feel than pretending to be the smiling boy who actually isn't in the mood to smile. — Sebastian Vettel
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
Why does everyone have to pretend to be stupid and not know long words? — Martin Freeman
Never be a prisoner of your past. It was just a lesson, not a life sentence.
As gay people, we always think outside of the box. The irreverent is always important to a drag queen and anyone else who lives outside the box. And this is why drag's important: remember to not take life seriously. It's always important to see the laughter in the illusion that we pretend is real. — RuPaul
Why reasonable people go stark raving mad when anything involving a Negro comes up, is something I don't pretend to understand. — Harper Lee
If the show of any thing be good for any thing, I am sure sincerity is better; for why does any man dissemble, or seem to be that which he is not, but because he thinks it good to have such a quality as he pretends to? — John Tillotson
I want a blaze of light to flame in me forever in a timeless, dear love of everything. And why should I pretend to want anything else? — Jack Kerouac
Do Not Pretend Quotes
To pretend angels do not exist because they are invisible is to believe we never sleep because we don't see ourselves sleeping. — Thomas Aquinas
I do not pretend that I have led a blameless life, or that one fault justifies another, but the public in judging a case like mine should remember that the darkest life may have a bright side... — Ned Kelly
I am not an angel and do not pretend to be. That is not one of my roles. But I am not the devil either. I am a woman and a serious artist, and I would like so to be judged. — Maria Callas
Never regret anything that made you smile.
The evils we experience flow from the excess of democracy. The people do not want virtue, but are the dupes of pretended patriots. — Elbridge Gerry
We must learn to do economic work from all who know how, no matter who they are. We must esteem them as teachers, learning from them respectfully and conscientiously. We must not pretend to know when we do not know. — Mao Zedong
People pretend not to like grapes when the vines are too high for them to reach — Marguerite de Navarre
The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.
I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means. — Clarence Darrow
I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of. — Clarence Darrow
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. — Viswanathan Anand
It is no disgrace not to be able to do everything; but to undertake, or pretend to do, what you are not made for, is not only shameful, but extremely troublesome and vexatious. — Plutarch
The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we are obliged to act accordingly. — Soren Kierkegaard
I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been. — William Golding
Failure are part of life. If you don't fail, you don't learn. If you don't learn you'll never change.
Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, 'Make me feel important.' Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life. — Mary Kay Ash
Truth cannot be sacrificed at the altar of pretended tolerance. Real tolerance is deference to all ideas, not indifference to the truth. — Ravi Zacharias
You can't just pretend that the things you watch, and the things you hear, and the places you go will not have an impact on your character. They will. — Nouman Ali Khan
Focus on your own strengths and what you have to offer. Don’t get lost in trying to become like someone else or pretending to be someone else. — Jay Shetty
Playing the guitar is like telling the truth - you never have to worry about repeating the same [lie] if you told the truth. You don't have to pretend, or cover up. If someone asks you again, you don't have to think about it or worry about it because there it is. It's you. — B. B. King
The best way to not get your heart broken, is pretending you don't have one. — Charlie Sheen
Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass away.
Worry is a way to pretend that you have knowledge or control over what you don't--and it surprises me, even in myself, how much we prefer ugly scenarios to the pure unknown. — Rebecca Solnit
Don't pretend that you can just be oblivious to politics. You can't. What you never do is break your personal code. Have a code and keep it. You should never compromise what your priorities are. — Kamala Harris
And you don't have to care, so don't pretend. Nobody needs a best fake friend. — James Bay
Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it's now or never.
To me, mathematics is like playing the violin. Some people can do it - others can't. If you don't have it, then there's no point in pretending. — Freeman Dyson
Don't take what someone else has made sure of and pretend it's you yourself that have made sure of it till it's yours absolutely by conviction. It's stealing to take it and hypocrisy and you'll fall into a hole. — Emily Carr
At the same time, you don't want to be blindsided at some point because you've taken too much comfort from knowing nothing. So you try to keep a little store of practical knowledge. At a certain point you have to pretend that something is true in order to have a relationship with the world. — Will Oldham
I don't have any training as an actor, but I guess I'm an intense pretender. When you read something over and over, it gets into you a little bit. You can't help but begin to feel it, even if you're a healthy person as I think I am. — John Hawkes
Love Pretend Quotes
Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. — Bill Cosby
Do you remember the 21st night of September? Love was changing the minds of pretenders While chasing the clouds away Our hearts were ringing In the key that our souls were singing. As we danced in the night, Remember how the stars stole the night away. — Maurice White
No one can remain married today because they are not married to the one they love, they are married to their sacrifice, and pretending to love is too damned painful. Love and build, love and work, love and fight. Always love first. Anything placed before love will fail. — Sister Souljah
Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.
If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don't want to do it. — Stephen Colbert
I don't feel anti-love. I feel suspicious of love, and I feel suspicious of what it means to be in love. And I also feel suspicious of what it means to feel pretend love for someone. — Sara Quin
That was the worst thing about having a relationship with someone, even a pretend relationship. You opened up, let someone in, and when it was over, they had all the ammunition they needed to completely destroy you. — Sarra Manning
Two things you will never have to chase: true friends and true love.
What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better. — Doris Lessing
Sometimes losing a pet is more painful than losing a human because in the case of the pet, you were not pretending to love it. — Amy Sedaris
I have to admit I don’t like pizza. I love it. And I am prepared to do literally anything to get my hands on a slice. — Liz Truss
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 — Susan Polis Schutz
Play Pretend Quotes
When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and stuffed animals, pretend like they're real dogs. — Elle Fanning
I was in a play in elementary school and had to jump up and run away. I was nervous and tripped and fell down and everyone laughed. Their laughter made me relax, so I pretended it was part of the show. — Sherman Hemsley
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. — Katherine Heigl
As a kid, you obviously dream of being a professional footballer. I would watch players like Ronaldo of Brazil and pretend to be him in the playground. But I don't think about trying to become one of the best in the world or anything like that. I just play football. — Gareth Bale
When you have spent an important part of your life playing Let's Pretend, it's often easy to see symbolism where none exists. — Gene Tierney
We play make believe, pretend to take ourselves and each other seriously--to love each other, hate each other--but then--it isn't true. It isn't true, we don't care at all! — Ugo Betti
I'm not angry, I'm not an angry person, but I do sometimes like playing with the perception of anger, as in pretending that I'm more angry than I actually am, and sometimes it works quite well. — Calvin Harris
Time made me change. I gradually woke up to the realization that this is who I am, an author, a public figure, and I couldn't just hide in my study, tapping away at the keyboard and pretend that I didn't have a role to play beyond stringing words together. — David Guterson
Once she remembered trying to box her own ears for having cheated herself in a game of croquet she was playing against herself, for this curious child was very fond of pretending to be two people. — Lewis Carroll
It's a miracle was the last track recorded for the album, we based it on the rhythm from the middle of 'Late Home Tonight, where there's Graham Broad playing lots and lots of drums with me shouting in the background, pretending to be a mad Arab leader. — Roger Waters
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. — Matt Redman
When I was in high school, I liked to pretend that I was a Russian foreign exchange student. I would do things like go into a pizza restaurant and tell them Id never had pizza before, and theyd bring me into the kitchen and show me how to make an American pizza. Its really fun. — Misha Collins
The difference between burlesque and the newspapers is that the former never pretended to be performing a public service by exposure. — I. F. Stone
I never tell one client that I cannot attend his sales convention because I have a previous engagement with another client; successful polygamy depends upon pretending to each spouse that she is the only pebble on your beach. — David Ogilvy
Some people never find it, some only pretend, but I just want to live happily ever after every now and then. — Jimmy Buffett
The truth is, I pretend to be a cynic, but I am really a dreamer who is terrified of wanting something she may never get. — Joanna Hoffman
The political arena is the funniest.They [politicians] are always pretending to change, but they never change. They're the best actors and actresses in the world. They've always been hilarious since the beginning of time. — Paul Mooney
To seek freedom is the only driving force I know. Freedom to fly off into that infinity out there. Freedom to dissolve; to lift off; to be like the flame of a candle, which, in spite of being up against the light of a billion stars, remains intact, because it never pretended to be more than what it is: a mere candle. — Carlos Castaneda
At school I pretended I had a normal life, but I felt lonely all the time and different from everyone else. I never felt like I fit in, and I wasn't allowed to participate in after-school activities, go to sports events or parties or date boys. Many times I had to make up stories about why I couldn't do anything with my classmates. — Joyce Meyer
There is a beautiful transparency to honest disciples who never wear a false face and do not pretend to be anything but who they are. — Brennan Manning
What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for beauty, and never see the dawn! — Logan Pearsall Smith
never believe a man can change a woman those men are pretenders who think that they created women from one of their ribs — Nizar Qabbani
You want me to act like we've never kissed, you want to forget; pretend we've never met , and I've tried and I've tried, but I haven't yet... You walk by, and I fall to pieces. — Patsy Cline
With five feeble senses we pretend to comprehend the boundlessly complex cosmos, yet other beings with wider, stronger, or different range of senses might not only see very differently the things we see, but might see and study whole worlds of matter, energy, and life which lie close at hand yet can never be detected with the senses we have. — H. P. Lovecraft
I think I'm a very pretty girl. I'm never going to pretend to think otherwise. There are even days I feel I'm fabulously hot and sexy. I'm grateful for my looks. My family is doing well because of them. I can make career choices and turn down movies because of them and I have been making money from them for 17 years. My looks are who I am. — Milla Jovovich
Just one more word. If I ever run into any of you bums on the street corner, just let's pretend we never met before. — William Holden
Brigid: I haven't lived a good life - I've been bad, worse than you could know.
Spade: That's good, because if you actually were as innocent as you pretend to be, we'd never get anywhere. — Dashiell Hammett
Never trust a sentimentalist. They are all alike, pretenders to virtue, at heart selfish frauds and sensualists. — Jack Butler Yeats
The great secret of succeeding in conversation is to admire little, to hear much; always to distrust our own reason, and sometimes that of our friends; never to pretend to wit, but to make that of others appear as much as possibly we can; to hearken to what is said and to answer to the purpose. — Benjamin Franklin
There was a lot of tabloid journalism about my supposed sex addiction. Bullshit. It's all bullshit. I mean, come on, I never pretended to be a saint. But give me a break. — Michael Douglas
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
Sometimes you never feel meaner than the moment you stop being mean. It's like how turning on a light makes you realize how dark the room had gotten. And the way you usually act, the things you would have normally done, are like these ghosts that everyone can see but pretends not to. — Rebecca Stead
She belongs to a race of delightful women, who never do any harm, whom everybody calls good, and who are very severe on those who do not pretend to be good. — Gilbert Parker
Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed; nature never pretends. — Johann Kaspar Lavater
All religions have some truth in them, but none has the whole truth; all are created in time and finally decline and perish. Mahomed himself never pretended that the Koran was the last message of God and there would be no other. God and Truth outlast these religions and manifest themselves anew in whatever way or form the Divine Wisdom chooses. — Sri Aurobindo
I could try to pretend that I didn't care anymore, but it could never be true again. You can't just make yourself matter, and then die, Alaska, because now, I am irretrievably different, and I'm sorry I let you go, yes, but you made the choice. — John Green
The Frenchman works until he can play. The American works until he can’t play; and then thanks the devil, his master, that he is donkey enough to die in harness. But the Englishman, as he has since become, works until he can pretend that he never worked at all. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Rare is the human being, immature or mature, who has never felt an impulse to pretend he is some one or something else. — George P. Baker
I love the very exposed, humorous, imperfect, never-trying to-pretend-to-be-perfect journey that I have been on in my life. — Drew Barrymore
Political Economy, in truth, has never pretended to give advice to mankind with no lights but its own; though people who knew nothing but political economy (and therefore knew it ill) have taken upon themselves to advise, and could only do so by such lights as they had. — John Stuart Mill
I don't play the tuba. The tuba plays me. My tuba is not actually a tuba, because it has never produced a musical sound. It is actually a giant frog pretending to be a tuba. — David Klass
Fall Out Boy never pretended that we were anything but pop-rock. — Pete Wentz
Well, I would definitely give up performing... But I would still sit down in an office and pretend to write with Dawn, even if we never produced anything, because it's just hilarious. I would miss that. — Jennifer Saunders
But I always communicate with the audience. I never pretend like I'm just in my bedroom making a track. The whole point of doing a gig is, like, a feedback thing between you and the audience. — Squarepusher
The Democratic Party will never desert the freedoms of our people under the guise of pretending to protect them. — Emanuel Celler
Designers need to be mavericks, because the best way to design a successful object is to pretend that either it never existed or that people will be able to have a new behavior with it. — Paola Antonelli
I had these fangs because I had jaundice when I was a kid and I was put on so many antibiotics that my teeth rotted. They had to cut them out. So I never had milk teeth. That was tough, you know, being in school having photos taken while I was pretending I had teeth. It was hideous. — Charlize Theron
We've never played at this place before. This place is big, and I'm kinda nervous, so we're going to make it feel small by pretending we're in a... bedroom. We'll hang off the edge of the bed, take off our shoes and get naked! — Dave Matthews
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