Tupac Shakur Quotes

You have to remember we're just performers, that we seldom have any kind of grasp on real life.

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

The false is nothing but an imitation of the true.

It's like kids playing house: 'You play the father, I'll play the mother.' You know, you dress up, you play, they pay, you go home. It's a game - acting's a game.

We're actors. We're the opposite of people.

It is a career of make-believe, of masks. We all have masks in life.

There was this wonderful trick of going to the theater with my parents and sitting in the audience under the watchful eye of an usher, and then these other people would come on the stage: They spoke differently and had different clothes and hair. Afterward, they would come back, and they were my parents again. It was magic.

I know this sounds kind of crazy, but I think we're all actors.

That's what show business is, sincere insincerity.

The thrill of acting is making a character real. Modeling is the opposite of real. It's being fake in front of the camera.

Some people just want to make up the funny things and play pretend.

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

When I was a little girl, I loved theater a lot and I was always playing and making my own worlds.

For me, life is like an act within itself. Everything I do is an act. Where I'm going is an act.

One of the weird things about Hollywood is we're all imposters; we're all just glammed up.

Well, you know what they say in Hollywood - the most important thing is being sincere, even if you have to fake it.

You can tell when someone is putting on a role. If someone really believes in what they're saying, it's quite hard to find cracks.

Acting is like lying. The art of lying well. I'm paid to tell elaborate lies.

The hair is real - it's the head that's a fake.

I can fake anything.

We ape, we mimic, we mock. We act.

As an actor, we spend so much putting the mask on and trying to be someone you're not.

From the age of 8, I learned that nothing in the entertainment industry is real. It's all fake. Your face, your clothes, what you say - it's all a fake.

A large part of acting is just pretending. You get to work with these other great make-believers, all making believe as hard as they can.

Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.