Quotes About Acting

Acting is a funny job because you're always playing a hundred levels of pretend, but when you're working with great designers who end up doing a lot of that work for you, you can focus on the things you want to focus on.

I never thought I could pretend to be someone else.

It's a blessing to stay a child all your life - pretend to be this and that. And get paid for it.

I never do anything for the camera. It's my job to pretend the camera's not there. I'm never moving for the camera.

I'm not confident at all. You just pretend you are.

I feel like acting's a really good excuse because I just get to pretend to do everything and then back out if I don't like it.

I always approach comedy roles pretending they aren't funny.

Doing animation is closer to pretending than anything else you get to do. It's much more like when you're a kid putting on a character.

That's what acting is. You're pretending to be someone else.

I was bullied; I was kind of a girl in the corner. So acting was a great outlet for me by pretending to be someone else.

When I do an impression of someone or when I am pretending to be someone else, something freaky happens: I feel the person I am mimicking behind my eyeballs. Their head is sitting perfectly inside mine, helping me project a false self out on to the world. And it's not always a choice.

To anybody who says to me, 'I'm in character,' I say, 'You should be in an asylum.' If you don't know that you're pretending, then you should really seek medical help. I don't have patience for that stuff.

It's not that Shakespeare is frivolous, but you spend your time just getting people to dress up in other people's costumes and pretending to be people that they're not, and you think, after the years go by, well, what on earth was all that about?

Being is like pretending.

I knew when I grew up, I always wanted to be a liar, and if you're in television, you're lying because you're just pretending to be yourself much like I'm doing now.

I've never had to turn my hand to anything for monetary gain, other than pretending to be somebody else. I'm deeply fortunate.

Pretending to be other people helped bring me out of my shell and shed my inhibitions.

It's a challenge, writing about actors, especially a good actor, because you can't always tell when they're being honest and when they're pretending - that is, when they're acting. The really good ones don't always seem to know themselves.

I'm really good at pretending.

Actors are pretending for you, but they're not lying. They are not putting on a guise instead of themselves. They are finding things inside that they have experienced.

I'm just very good at pretending.

Acting is bluffing, pretending to be something.

I'm a performer. I'm pretending to be someone else. I'm not putting my own self into the show every night.

I've definitely gotten a few jobs by pretending like I knew what I was talking about.