Acting as if Quote by Machel Shull

But then acting is all about faking. We're all very good at faking things that we have no competence with.

— John Cleese

Faking is a social activity in which people act together to draw a veil over unwanted realities and encourage each other in the exercise…

— Roger Scruton

It is good to act as if. It is even better to grow to the point where it is no longer an act.

— Charles Caleb Colton

In each case you settle on an act. Doing nothing at all counts as an act.

— Ian Hacking

“Faking depends on a measure of complicity between the perpetrator and the victim, who together conspire to believe what they don’t believe and to…

— Roger Scruton

Don't try to act if you can be real and don't try to be real if you can act well.

— Shubhanshu Tiwari

Acting isn't a game of "pretend." It's an exercise in being real.

— Sidney Poitier

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

— William James

Pretending is not just play. Pretending is imagined possibility. Pretending, or acting, is a very valuable life skill and we do it all the…

— Meryl Streep

Acting is the absence of acting. It's believing in the truth of the moment you are creating.

— Gary Busey

There's a difference between realness and an act, and they're an act, and they know they're an act, and they even say they're an…

— Eminem

To act is to anchor in an imminent future, so imminent it becomes almost tangible; to act is to feel you are consubstantial with…

— Emile M. Cioran