Play Acting Quotes

“It is my belief that, given the necessary physical likeness, it was far easier to pretend to be king of Ruritania than it would have been to personate my next-door neighbor.”
― Anthony Hope, The Prisoner of Zenda

“Mrs. Baker's social manner was almost robotlike in its perfection. All her comments and remarks were natural, normal, everyday currency, but one had a suspicion that the whole thing was like an actor playing a part for perhaps the seven hundredth time. It was an automatic performance, completely divorced from what Mrs. Baker might really have been thinking or feeling.”
― Agatha Christie, Destination Unknown

“And he said...

...I do not play at being a god, yet you do. May I ask why?”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“Don't scream,' Archer whispered in her ear, 'or I'll toss you off this bridge.'

'You wouldn't dare,' she gasped.

'You want to test me, Princess? Because I would dare to do even more.”
― Stephanie Garber, A Curse for True Love