Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending.
Hypocrisy is not a way of getting back to the moral high ground. Pretending you're moral, saying your moral is not the same as acting morally.
An awful lot of gay pop stars pretend to be straight. I'm going to start a movement of straight pop stars pretending to be gay.
Pretending that we live doesn't make us alive.
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.
Lots of people there seemed to be in denial, in absolute denial, of death - everybody's pretending that death doesn't happen in L.A.; if you do enough exercise and take enough wheatgrass and have your pill every day, you might not die.
Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.
A liberal pretending to be a conservative? That's like a straight person pretending to be gay to get greater acceptance.
Back in college, I remember shooting stupid videos with my friends. It would be us going around town in capes pretending we were superheroes.
As a child, one of my defense mechanisms was to try to be funny. My mom tried to nurture that by putting me in acting class. But I got bored when we stopped pretending to be trees and actually had to work.