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The thing about being an actor is that you're acting. It's not that big of a deal of to play someone different from yourself.

— Cameron Monaghan

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✓Similar Perspectives

The thing about being an actor is that you turn into other people. You have to hide yourself a bit in order to let that other person come out.

— Penelope Wilton

As an actor, you never try to be someone else. You can't.

— Liam McIntyre

The thing about being an actor is that every new job is a new challenge. Sometimes you'll have a shot, and it doesn't work. Sometimes it'll work better than you expected.

— Jacki Weaver

There's something important, as an actor, about allowing yourself to be approached by people to do roles. People see different things in you.

— Damian Lewis

Everybody has parts of themselves that they're not 100% happy with - that's what makes you human. And being an actor, your job is to play human beings. Your job is to play real people.

— Katie Lowes

Sometimes I think being an actor is like being a dog for a director; it's like they throw a stick, and you want to fetch it and bring it back to them. You want a pat on the head for it.

— Joel Edgerton

I'm not very actorish. I don't play actor 24 hours a day. When the job is done, I go on to be myself, whoever that is.

— Raymond Burr

✗Opposing Perspectives

As an actor, you try to put a little bit of yourself in everything you do.

— Michael Cudlitz

Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself.

— Ralph Fiennes

The problem with being an actor is that you have to be reactive to what other people want.

— Marisa Coughlan