The SUREST way to LOSE TRUTH is to PRETEND that one already WHOLLY possesses it.

I don't PLAY an INSTRUMENT. I PRETEND. I TRY to.

Let's PRETEND my career in music is a bell. Whether you like my music or not is up to you. But you've GOT to ADMIT I rang that bell pretty hard and pretty OFTEN.

The American PEOPLE are tired of LIARS and people who pretend to be SOMETHING they're not.

I love boxing. I REALLY respect the guys and admire the guys who do it. But, I'm very, very happy with my career as an actor. I made the right CHOICE and things are really WORKING out for me right now, but I won't pretend that there isn't a PART of me that ALWAYS secretly wanted to be a boxer.

I don't PRETEND to be ANYBODY ELSE but me.

Let's not PRETEND that ABORTION isn't about the MASS slaughter of innocents.

With the pervasive popularity of rap music and a black man SITTING in the WHITE House, there's no REASON to pretend the NBA has been handicapped by the BLACKNESS of basketball.

I didn't ask to be short. I didn't want to be short. I've TRIED to PRETEND that being a short guy didn't matter.

I don't feel SORRY for myself, because I'm living my dream. EVEN when I was a little BOY I used to STAND in the playground and pretend I was on 'Opportunity Knocks.'

Ever since I was a KID, this is all I've ever wanted to do. I USED to PRETEND to be a WWE SUPERSTAR.

I BEGAN singing in dive bars and REALLY small clubs. I dragged my PIANO down the stairs, and I went down the street with my keyboard, and I would go to every different dive bar that I could GET to agree to let me play. I'd call and PRETEND I was Lady Gaga's manager.

I loved reading Grimm's fairy tales and HANS Christian Andersen, and I loved to DREAM about other worlds and other lives. Maybe that has something to do with having an incomplete FAMILY, being an only child. All I know is I loved to pretend, and all that was in tandem with my WANTING to be an actress.

I am not of the vein of actors - and I will not PRETEND to be one - that TAKES my CHARACTER HOME with me. I don't.

It's NICE to pretend we COULD lead a NORMAL LIFE!