Casts Quote by Elizabeth Bibesco

To others we are not ourselves but performers in their lives cast for a part we do not even know we are playing.

— Elizabeth Bibesco

We are not what we seem. We are more than what we seem. The actor knows that. And because the actor knows that hidden…

— Wallace Shawn

Everybody is an actor in one way or another. We are all performing certain things.

— Jake Gyllenhaal

I'm not a performer who will come on stage and tell you everything about my life. It's just not who I am.

— Bebe Neuwirth

As actors, you play people who are not yourselves!

— Laura Carmichael

We all perform our lives in a way. And the actor is a perfect metaphor to get at that theme of 'how do we…

— Annette Bening

You're playing for yourself. And if you're not playing for yourself, you're an entertainer, doing it for the crowd.

— Butch Trucks

We're actors in our lives, pretendin' to be who we want people to think we are.

— Simone Elkeles

Acting and performing is part of who I am.

— Debra Stephenson

I think I'm not a natural performer; I think I'm an actor.

— Meryl Streep

I play my life straight - the way I see it. I'm grateful to audiences for watching me and for enjoying what I do…

— Johnny Carson

But although I appreciate our audience, we don't do things for them. It's all for us - we play really self-indulgent music.

— Cedric Bixler-Zavala