Quotes tagged ‘pretending’

“I don't think you changed at all. I think you became more yourself. You stopped pretending to be anything else.”

— Steven Levenson, Gwen Verdon, Michelle Williams, imdb.com

“Eric: Tom Cruise is going to play Pablo Escobar? C'mon, the guy's not even Hispanic. Ari: Yeah, and Hilary Swank has a vagina, but she won an Oscar pretending she has a dick. That's what actors do. They pretend.”

— Doug Ellin, Larry Charles, Ari Gold, Jeremy Piven, imdb.com

“Sweetheart. I noticed you were pretending to masturbate and I was wondering if you wanted to talk about it.”

— Laurie Nunn, Jean Milburn, Gillian Anderson, imdb.com

“Just every day, I I go to work, I pretend to be this this person, this waitress. I serve people and I smile, and then I go home, and it's the same thing. I pretend to be a a good daughter, and sometimes I convince myself this is me, this is real.”

— Cami Delavigne, Heidi Bergman, Julia Roberts, imdb.com

“Everyone's got an act.”

— Jenny Bicks, Anne Wheeler, Zendaya, imdb.com

“Ask me how I'm doing, I'll say okay. But ain't that what we all say?”

— NF, open.spotify.com

“Wednesday: This is the only country in the world that wonders what it is. Shadow: You've been to a lot of other countries, have you? Wednesday: No. No, never, just this one. Just that the others know what they are. I mean, no one wonders about the heart of Norway or goes searching for the soul of Mo…”

— Maria Melnik, Mr. Wednesday, Ian McShane, imdb.com

“Why were you rude to me when we first met, then nicer to me the second time we met, and now you want to be my friend? Which time was it that you were pretending?”

— David Shore, Dr. Shaun Murphy, Freddie Highmore, imdb.com

“The Governor: I thought you were a cop, not a lawyer. Rick Grimes: Either way, I don't pretend to be a governor.”

— Ryan Coleman, The Governor, David Morrissey, imdb.com

“Why do we have to pretend to be stupid when we're not stupid? Why do we have to pretend to be helpless when we're not helpless? Why do we have to pretend we're not hungry when we're hungry?”

— Daniel Palladino, Miriam “Midge” Maisel, Rachel Brosnahan, imdb.com

“If you’re committed enough, you can make any story work. I once told a woman I was Kevin Costner, and it worked because I believed it.”

— John Shiban, Thomas Schnauz, Saul Goodman, Bob Odenkirk, imdb.com

“Allison: Maybe you should stop pretending to suck his dick just for his benefit. Lydia: Trust me, I do plenty of sucking of his dick just for his benefit.”

— Jeff Davis, Lydia Martin, Holland Roden, imdb.com

“This isn't how I want it to be, how either of us want it to be. This is what it is. Let's stop pretending. Let's just be here.”

— Matt Byrne, Shonda Rhimes, Olivia Pope, Kerry Washington, imdb.com

“Nate: Time flies when you're having fun, huh? Nathaniel Sr.: No, time flies when you're pretending to have fun.”

— Craig Wright, Nate Fisher, Peter Krause, imdb.com

“Sunny: Are you having dirty with Mel Trueblood? Oh my god, I love your life. Sam: You love what you pretend my life is.”

— Louis C.K., Sam Fox, Pamela Adlon, imdb.com

“Chic: We’ll start with why I webcam. One of the reasons is to make money. The other reason is...to escape. Betty: To pretend to be someone else. Chic: Yes, but...more than that...it’s a way of getting away from the darkness I feel inside me too.”

— Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, Charles "Chic" Smith, Hart Denton, imdb.com

“Dean: You can pretend all you want, Sammy. But sooner or later you're going to have to face up to who you really are. Sam: And who is that? Dean: One of us.”

— Eric Kripke, Dean Winchester, Jensen Ackles, imdb.com

“She used to laugh, but now she’s crying, sick of the pain. She puts on her mask, pretends, and she acts like she’s okay.””

— NF, thoughtcatalog.com

“She believe that the best way to avoid having your heart broken was to pretend you don't have one.”

— E. Lockhart, amazon.com

“I stopped apologizing for my pain. I stopped trying to hide it. I stopped trying to pretend like everything is fine when it’s not.”

— Rania Naim, thoughtcatalog.com