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Acting is like a Halloween mask that you put on.

— River Phoenix

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✓Similar Perspectives

To me acting is like a jigsaw puzzle. The jigsaw puzzle is of the sky and all the pieces are blue. Out of this you have to create a human being and put it together.

— Henry Winkler

You're used to having a camera in your face when you're playing a character - it's like having a mask on. But when you have to be you, you're so worried you'll make an idiot of yourself. Acting is a kind of escapism.

— Sheridan Smith

Acting can be a really silly thing. It's like playing dress-up.

— Paul Giamatti

Acting is acting.

— Brent Spiner

Acting is a humiliating job, from start to finish.

— Claire Danes

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

Acting is largely about putting on masks, and music is about removing them.

— Hugh Laurie

✗Opposing Perspectives

Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide; he exposes himself.

— Jeanne Moreau

Acting is about giving yourself away, like the U2 song 'With or Without You.' You just don't stay behind a character and make people laugh or cry. At some point you have to take off that mask, and when you do, you're a human being, not just an actor. After all, I'm Catherine the person first. You share that.

— Catherine Hicks

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