I don't think I'm very cool as a person. I'm just better than anyone else at acting cool.
I have always weirdly seen myself as more of a character actor. I have never been suave. I could never see myself playing James Bond. I suppose I could fake it, but I am certainly not James Bond in real life.
It was so draining. Going to parties to rub elbows with so-and-so and act like it's no big deal, when really all I was doing was hoping I'd have the success they had.
'Faking It' was hard for me to let go of because I knew how many kids it helped.
I certainly direct with confidence even if I'm not confident. I learned early on as an actor that confidence can be faked, and it's not always a terrible thing to do. A lot of times if people feel you're confident, then they're confident.
I never was able to do karate. That's calling me a good actor. I act like I can do anything.
Pretending is a very valuable life skill.
In my mind that's the best thing I can do for my girl, is to love my body and the way I look. That's what I sort of decided when she was young. And so it's sort of about faking it until you can make it.
[When Harry Met Sally] was fine, but it was a job. And I did it right after The 'Burbs.
Nobody really knows what they're doing. Some are just better at pretending like they do.
You just have to play it cool. You don't want everyone to know you're an amateur.
There were a lot of lyrics that I sang but didn't understand. But I had this facade in performance of looking like I wrote the book.
I played trumpet for about two weeks. Sixth grade. And I didn't practice. Maybe a little longer than two weeks, but I didn't practice and I was faking it.
I don't know, I don't know how to do anything. I'm just like, doing impressions of what I've seen other people do, and hoping no one knows that I'm actually just a little monster in a human suit making my arms go up and down.
Sometimes I wake up at night and go, 'Oh, damn! Here we go again! What were they thinking? They gave me this role; don't they know I'm faking it?
I'm not confident at all. You just pretend you are.
My school had the dopest arts program - the dopest show choir, the dopest marching band. I couldn't sing or play an instrument a lick, but I was just going to fake it till I make it.
I try to give the appearance that I have it all together and that I know what I'm talking about, but at the end of the day, I think I might be full of crap.
I'm not trying to be this cool girl. If you're trying to be something you're not, it's slowly going to bite you in the butt.
I've never had to pretend to be having sex with somebody. I'm like the queen of the foreplay dissolve.
That might work," I said. "I'm good at faking it." This led to a couple moments of uncomfortable silence from both of us. "You didn't mean... ?" Morelli asked. "No. Of course not." "Never?" "Maybe once." His eyes narrowed. "Once?" "It's all that comes to mind. It was the time we were late for your Uncle Spud's birthday party." "I remember that. That was great. You're telling me you faked it?" "We were late! I couldn't concentrate. It seemed like the best way to go.
I'm forever making it out like I have got it all together and I know what I'm doing. The truth is I haven't got a clue what I'm doing.
Parenting is the greatest of hum-a-few-bars-and-I'll-fake-it skills.
Smile. Nod. Say something witty before he finds out what an incredible geek you are.
I feel as though I've fooled the world into thinking I'm an adult and now they're letting me procreate.
