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Acting is not just impersonating your character.

— Michelle Yeoh

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✓Similar Perspectives

For a time, I really thought acting was just impersonating. But impersonation is just big brush strokes, really. What makes acting different is empathy.

— Douglas Hodge

I know acting is not impersonating, but I'm good with impressions. I can do impressions of people I know, and people I've been, and roles that I've acted before.

— Jemima Kirke

Acting isn't necessarily pretending. It's storytelling. It's giving someone your perspective on something.

— Crystal Bowersox

I've got to tell you, I've played real characters before and people always bring up this word 'impersonation,' and I'm never entirely sure what it means.

— Toby Jones

Acting is way of making yourself exist.

— Stephen Rea

Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.

— Haley Joel Osment

Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discovering the character you're playing through your own experience - so we're all different.

— Ian Mckellen

Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

— George Burns

✗Opposing Perspectives

I always think of the character as being me. But me wearing a 'coat', which may be a different way of speaking, moving or regarding other people. To me, acting is pretending, just like kids playing, only you pretend as if it were really, really real.

— Fred Melamed

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

— Saoirse Ronan