“ Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own. ”
- Logan Pearsall Smith- Copy
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“ Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there. ”
- Eric Hoffer- Copy
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“ And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade. ”
- Alexander Pope- Copy
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“ The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped. ”
- Arthur Schopenhauer- Copy
- 3.5K
“ I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever. ”
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn- Copy
- 1.9K
“ During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable, even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism. ”
- Howard Thurman- Copy
- 2.5K
“ Pretending to be other people is my game and that to me is the essence of the whole business of acting. ”
- John Hurt- Copy
- 1.7K
“ To live each day as though one's last, never flustered, never apathetic, never attitudinizing, is perfection of character. ”
- Marcus Aurelius- Copy
- 3.4K
“ Don't laugh at youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own. ”
- Logan Pearsall Smith- Copy
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“ Of all the pretenses of the formal party season, the hardest, I find, is pretending that your clothes fit. ”
- Robert Brault- Copy
- 3.5K
“ All actions and attitudes of children are graceful because they are the luxuriant and immediate offspring of the moment - divested of affectation and free from all pretense. ”
- Henry Fuseli- Copy
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“ There are always going to be more actors than anybody can ever use. ”
- Edward Albee- Copy
- 1.3K
“ Pretending is not just play. Pretending is imagined possibility. Pretending, or acting, is a very valuable life skill and we do it all the time. ”
- Meryl Streep- Copy
- 3K
“ Youth does not require reasons for living, it only needs pretexts. ”
- Jose Ortega y Gasset- Copy
- 1.8K
“ But then acting is all about faking. We're all very good at faking things that we have no competence with. ”
- John Cleese- Copy
- 309
“ Affectation is certain deformity; by forming themselves on fantastic models, the young begin with being ridiculous, and often end in being vicious. ”
- Robert Blair- Copy
- 2.8K
“ Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it. ”
- Don Marquis- Copy
- 2.3K
“ Hollywood is tied hand and foot to the demands for artificiality of the masses all over the world. ”
- Lionel Barrymore- Copy
- 3.5K
“ People always ask me, "Where were you when Kennedy was shot?" Well, I don't have an alibi. ”
- Emo Philips- Copy
- 785
“ I don't do T & A very well because I haven't got much of either. ”
- Lucille Ball- Copy
- 2.1K
“ I don't do this type of appearance very often. But this was something different. ”
- Stephen King- Copy
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