Women have to stop pretending the choices we make, particularly if we have a platform, don't affect others. We have to be held accountable.
What actors are good at doing is walking into a situation that should make you incredibly self-conscious and frightened and doing it anyway. That's the gig, pretending that you are comfortable.
It's much more interesting to embrace who you really are rather than waste energy pretending to be someone else.
The saddest day in the world will be the one when she stops pretending.
I remind myself that I don't have the ability to completely manipulate reality to be exactly what I want it to be. So now that reality is antithetical to what I want, how I can feel into it and act skillfully rather than react? How can I choose my best course of action while not pretending I don't have the pain, or running away from the pain, or blaming someone else for the circumstances of my life?
We come to the nations pretending to escape persecution, we the most deadly persecutors in all the wretched annals of man.
I find it interesting that there are impostors out on the Internet pretending to be Werner Herzog.
I refuse to have a life partner who spends his days pretending to be on a BBC show.
Acting is pretending to be someone else.
Wearing your clothes or standing in the shower for over an hour, pretending that this skin is your skin, these hands your hands, these shins, these soapy flanks
Every character, no matter who you play, at times is pretending to be somebody else. People have a public face and a private face.
I played soccer, and I was the kid who ran the wrong way, or I was pretending to be some sort of zebra and I would flail my arms and kick up my legs.
There is no pretending," Jace said with absolute clarity. "I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there is life after that, I'll love you then.
What is it in us that makes us feel the need to keep pretending. . . we gotta let ourselves be.
I'm not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I'm doing.
Every role is approached in exactly the same way, you have to make it believable and that's all. Acting is really serious, like, pretending really hard.
Now all of a sudden I'm so less interested in pretending to be a lot of other people, and much more interested in being me.
Sometimes it's called passing out and sometimes it's just pretending to be asleep
You gain power by pretending to be weak. By contrast, you make people feel strong. You save people by letting them save you.
One of the benefits of being you is: You know that the people who love you, love you for you. They don't love you for who they think you are or who you're pretending to be.