Anne McCaffrey Quotes

You've always lived a life of pretense, not a real life-- a simulated existence, not a genuine existence. Everything about you, everything you are, has always been pretense, never genuine, never real.

No, none of us seem so very real. We're only supporting characters in the lives of each other. Any real truth, any precious fact will always be lost in a mountain of shattered make-believe.

There we were - demented children mincing about in clothes that no one ever wore, speaking as no man ever spoke, swearing love in wigs and rhymed couplets, killing each other with wooden swords, hollow protestations of faith hurled after empty promises of vengeance - and every gesture, every pose, vanishing into the thin unpopulated air. We ransomed our dignity to the clouds, and the uncomprehending birds listened. Don't you see?! We're actors - we're the opposite of people!

You see how fake it all is. It's not even hard enough to be made out of plastic. It's a paper town.

My life is a movie set. These people, they all think this is real, but it's not.

This industry is very make-believe and you caught in a false sense of what reality is.

I'm not so much concerned with the natural bastards as I am with the self-made ones.

If you're trying to be something you're not, you can see right through it.

Ghost has always been about make-believe.

People don't really want reality. They want theater, and that's different.

I'm not trying to make everything this fantasy world about how I'm living this lavish life that I'm not really living.

I believe more in the power of drama than in the power of religion.

We are kind of in a false reality here, playing football.

I think the celebrities today, not all of them, but just the whole industry frustrates me because it is so fake. People pretend to be, a lot of the time, what they're not.

Acting is illusion, as much illusion as magic is - and not so much a matter of being real.

Role is something people play, model is something people make, both of those things are fake.

Actors are the only honest hypocrites.

The theatre, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history, because the medium has a kindred movement to that of real life, though an artificial setting and form.

For the most part, when you're on set, you know everything's fake. You're very aware of the fact that you're shooting a television show.

Oh, you wanna do a little bit of roleplay? Could you just play dead?

Insincerity in a man's own heart must make all his enjoyments, all that concerns him, unreal; so that his whole life must seem like a merely dramatic representation.

The theatre demanded of its members stamina, good digestion, the ability to adjust, and a strong sense of humor. There was no discomfort an actor didn't learn to endure. To survive, we had to be horses and we were.

The dramatic art would appear to be rather a feminine art; it contains in itself all the artifices which belong to the province ofwoman: the desire to please, facility to express emotions and hide defects, and the faculty of assimilation which is the real essence of woman.

I don't like to act because my life is a pantomime anyway.

Drawing is deception.