Pretending To Be Someone Else Quotes

Acting is pretending to be someone else.

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

I spend my working life pretending to be someone else.

It's much more interesting to embrace who you really are rather than waste energy pretending to be someone else.

Standing in public in other people's clothes, pretending to be someone else. It's a strange way for a grown man to make a living.

Marlon once said to me about being an actor: Can you imagine going to work every day and pretending to be someone else?

My father and I used to tussle about me becoming an actor. He's from strong, Presbyterian Scottish working-class stock, and he used to sit me down and say, 'You know, 99 percent of actors are out of work. You've been educated, so why do you want to spend your life pretending to be someone else when you could be your own man?'

I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don't hurt me, because it is me.

I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don't hurt me, because it is me. If it was not me, if I was pretending to be someone else, then this could unbalance my world, but I know who I am.

I realized that I wanted to play characters and do traditional theatre. I wanted to make believe again. I like putting on a costume and pretending to be someone else for a few hours, and I have a great respect for playwrights.

The duke sounded like he was trying to convince himself. “Have you ever done this before?” “Set up someone by pretending to be someone else? Sure. Pretended to get killed? Not so much.

And from the first moment that I ever walked on stage in front of a darkened auditorium with a couple of hundred people sitting there, I was never afraid, I was never fearful, I didn't suffer from stage fright, because I felt so safe on that stage. I wasn't Patrick Stewart, I wasn't in the environment that frightened me, I was pretending to be someone else, and I liked the other people I pretended to be. So I felt nothing but security for being on stage. And I think that's what drew me to this strange job of playing make-believe.

Acting was my classroom in many ways and I always believed and I still do that acting is not just about pretending to be someone else, it's also about discovering yourself and reaching deeper inside yourself.

Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.