Pretends Quotes

"I`m so busy trying to be other people. You start acting just as soon as you walk into the door of that casting office. You can`t just be yourself because they don`t want to hire you. I am not a killer. I don`t beat my mother. I don`t do these things, but you have to walk in there and be these things because they don`t want to hire somebody who `pretends to be gay` or `pretends to be a gang member.`" - On auditioning.

(December 2006): If someone pretends not to recognize me, then he needs to get a life.

The only thing worse than a coach or CEO who doesn`t care about his people is one who pretends to care. People can spot a phony every time.

(The Pillow Book) The film has written and spoken dialogue in twenty-five languages - English, French, Japanese, Mandarin, Cantonese, Vietnamese, Latin, Hebrew, necrotic Egyptian ... and it has written calligraphic text on paper, wood, and flesh, on flat and curved surfaces, vertically and horizontally, on both living and dead flesh, in neon, on screens, in projection, as sub-title, inter-title, and sur-title, as High Art and low art, as advertisement and banker`s check and registration plate, on photograph, on blackboard, as letter correspondence, as photocopy facsimile, and spoken, chanted, and sung, with and without music ... a mocking challenge. You want text? Cinema wants text? Cinema pretends to eschew text? Then we can give you text to mock that smug suggestion that cinema thinks it is pictures.

Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.

A flatterer is a friend who is your inferior, or pretends to be so.

A superstition which pretends to be scientific creates a much greater confusion of thought than one which contents itself with simple popular practices.

Iran stands behind a substantial number of terrorist actions against us, together with Hizballah and the Islamic Jihad. It pretends to care for the Palestinians.

If he who employs coercion against me could mould me to his purposes by argument, no doubt he would. He pretends to punish me because his argument is strong; but he really punishes me because his argument is weak.

Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.