Cast Quote by Elizabeth Bibesco

To others we are not ourselves but a performer in their lives cast for a part we do not even know that we are…

— 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

As actors, you play people who are not yourselves!

— Laura Carmichael

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'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

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

I think that's so strange, because they do know that we're all actors and we perform things that have not necessarily anything to do…

— Werner Klemperer

... we performers are monsters. We are a totally different, far-out race of people. I totally and completely admit, with no qualmsat all, my…

— Leontyne Price

So what this is is us, our personalities refined down on to a stage performance. In other words, the way we play is the…

— Alice Cooper

I find often in Hollywood there are many people who play themselves really beautifully. And certain parts are not that dissimilar from who you…

— Carla Gugino