The distinction between pretending you are better than you are and beginning to be better in reality is finer than moral sleuth hounds conceive.
Part of the appeal of the fantastic is taking ridiculous ideas very seriously and pretending they're not absurd.
I cannot pretend that I regard this with favor, but the purpose of life is not what we want but what needs to be done.
I've been able to play a kid up to this point and pretend that I'm not a grown-up - well, at least for two hours a night!
The past is what you remember, imagine you remember, convince yourself you remember, or pretend you remember.
I've learned that you can call it a band, but unless everyone is contributing, it's not, really. It's pretending that it's a band.
I'm not naive enough to pretend that on its own cinema can capture the very soul of significant social and cultural problems.
The Democratic Party will never desert the freedoms of our people under the guise of pretending to protect them.
I've never had to turn my hand to anything for monetary gain, other than pretending to be somebody else. I'm deeply fortunate.
Pretend you are a foolish to the tyrant – because if he realizes you are a genius, he might use you to harm others.
It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.
We pretended there was no problem with Agent Orange after Vietnam and later the Pentagon recanted, after untold suffering by veterans.
I mean, I feel like I've been pretending I was a werewolf since I was a little kid.
It's sometimes better to pretend I don't hear the sound of somebody in the nearby woods with a shotgun.
Tonight I'll dust myself off, tonight I'll suck my gut in, I'll face the night and I'll pretend I got something to believe in.
Your primary tools, as an actor, are observation and imagination. You can pretty much get everything you need from that, and you do. It brings back that element of pretend.
I'm a performer. I've just been one since I was a little girl. I used to pretend all the time.
But they are not going to take on Big Oil because Big Oil is very generous at campaign time, and this is all about the elections. They want to pretend that they are doing something meaningful.
What was frustrating about Armageddon was the time I spent not doing anything. It was a big special effects film, and I wasn't crazy about pretending I was in outer space. It feels ridiculous.
Officer Slater: [Arresting Evan and Seth] Pretend he's your little sister, your little sister, with the picha baga daga dicta!
I am fascinated by people's flaws and delusions: all the messy bits of human nature we all try to pretend we don't have.
