I have a thing that I do when I meet famous people, where I try to play it really cool. Sometimes I pretend like I don't know them.
It is never wise to try to appear to be more clever than you are. It is sometimes wise to appear slightly less so.
False face must hide what the false heart doth know.
Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.
Pretend to be dumb, that's the only way to reach old age.
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
I had to keep on acting deaf if i wanted to hear at all.
In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not.
Often I pretended to a cameraman to know less than I did. That way I got more cooperation.
If I play a stupid girl and ask a stupid question, I've got to follow it through. What am I supposed to do, look intelligent?
