We're actors – we're the opposite of people!

Tom Stoppard
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We're actors — we're the opposite of people! The thing I love about being in a play is that you have to be an actor. You have to pretend to be someone else, but it's still real to you at the same time.

Source: Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead

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