Pretense Quotes

I liked the hard-core truth of `Rude Awakening`. But when I first read it, I was scared of it. Part of me was, like, it`s so unattractive! Does she have to vomit on herself? Does she then have to fall in it? God, what`s going on here?! But I liked that it didn`t glamorize alcohol. And what`s admirable about Billie is that she`s a straight shooter. She doesn`t have a lot of pretense. It`s like, `Take me as I am. You like me, fine! You don`t, I don`t give a damn! There`s something quite empowering about somebody who doesn`t care what other people think. Billie is learning about herself. She`s recognized that she has a problem with drugs and alcohol, and she`s trying to straighten it out. - on playing Billie Frank in "Rude Awakening" (1998)

For months we have seen the government trying to cling to a pathetic pretense of a cease-fire. Surely Peter Hain can recognize that when live bullets are fired at the police and army, that constitutes a breach of even his definition of a cease-fire.

Hollywood filmmaking has become more and more about power and control. It`s really not about telling stories. That`s just a pretense. But ironically, the fundamental difference between making films in Europe versus America is in how the screenplay is dealt with. From my experiences in Germany and France, the script is something that is constantly scrutinized by the film made from it. Americans are far more practical. For them, the screenplay is a blueprint and it must be adhered to rigidly in fear of the whole house falling down. In a sense, all of the creative energy goes into the screenplay so one could say that the film already exists before the film even begins shooting. You lose spontaneity. But in Germany and France, I think that filmmaking is regarded as an adventure in itself.

It would be futile to attempt to fit women into a masculine pattern of attitudes, skills and abilities and disastrous to force them to suppress their specifically female characteristics and abilities by keeping up the pretense that there are no differences between the sexes.

About Sicko (2007): I made Bowling for Columbine (2002) in the hope the school shootings would stop and that we would address the issue of how easy it is to get a gun in the United States and, tragically, those school shootings continue. I made Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004) and I said that we`d been led to a war under false pretense. I said it on the Oscar stage and I was booed off. It`s my profound hope that people will listen this time.

I wanted to dismantle any show-business pretense and take this thing straight as a human being, ... So I said, `I`m gonna write this, and where I think I`m great, I`m gonna say it, and where I think I`m not, I`m gonna say it. And I`m gonna try to love and accept myself along the way.`

I didn`t come from any kind of academic background, but I lived in a college town and I knew people who weren`t without pretense. There was this idea in the town that if something was European it would be good.

in the studio that went unnoticed for the full hour... Like Matt Cooper, Russert had testified to the grand jury on the Plame affair, yet at no point during the interview did the salient fact sally forth to the viewer. The pretense was uninvolved journalist interviewing involved participant: the reality was one pea in the pod interviewing a fellow pea.

The divide of race has been America`s constant curse. Each new wave of immigrants gives new targets to old prejudices. Prejudice and contempt, cloaked in the pretense of religious or political conviction, are no different. They have nearly destroyed us in the past. They plague us still. They fuel the fanaticism of terror. They torment the lives of millions in fractured nations around the world. These obsessions cripple both those who are hated and, of course, those who hate, robbing both of what they might become.

I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.