You gain power by pretending to be weak.
I'm more interested in the idea of role-playing in general than the idea of role-playing in art. I like the childlike quality of making pretend or the optimistic idea of pretending something's happening when it's not.
Marlon once said to me about being an actor: Can you imagine going to work every day and pretending to be someone else?
God affords no man the comfort, the false comfort of Atheism: He will not allow a pretending Atheist the power to flatter himself, so far, as to seriously think there is no God.
Don't go on pretending to be someone you are not
I deserve someone who likes me for who I am pretending to be.
Avoiding life, avoiding making any concrete plans for your life-that's just one way you're pretending you can keep bad things from happening to you again.
Everyone in a position of authority is hysterical, and everyone else is pretending to be asleep.
When you aren't sincere you need to pretend, and by pretending you end up believing yourself; that's the basic principle of every faith.
I'm tired of pretending I'm not special.
I'm tired of pretending that everything's fine just so I can please everyone else.
I brought you the truth about our city and the reason we are in it. If you aren't thanking me for it, you should at least do something about it instead of sitting here on this mess you made, pretending it's a throne!
Be original, stop pretending to be someone you are not, be your own light in this world.
We cannot get to our knowledge because the world is too loud. And we tend to make it louder as we cry out in pain, pretending we are singing.
Then how come everyone's making like everything that isn't important is very important, all the while they're so busy pretending what's really important isn't important at all?
You can't have a tin can tied to your tail and go through life pretending it isn't there.
We are born knowing how to be just. And we die knowing we spent a lifetime pretending we didn't.
And so, now things that are important are, for example, the upcoming elections. It's important that society demonstrate that it is not pretending that these elections are elections.
The key to mostly anything is pretending your first time isn't.
I believe that a lot of our striving after the symbols and levers of success is due to a basic insecurity, a need to prove ourselves. That done, grown up at last, we are free to stop pretending.