How hard is it to act? About as hard as lying because that’s what acting is. Lying about who you are. Pretending to be someone else which children figure out at about age 2.

“Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four.”
“Acting is the perfect idiot’s profession.”
“It’s a business you go into because you’re an egocentric. It’s a very embarrassing profession.”
– Katharine Hepburn


“Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It’s a bum’s life. . . . The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis.”


“An actor’s a guy, who if you ain’t talking about him, ain’t listening.”
― Marlon Brando

“I can’t stand an actor or actress who tells me acting is hard work. It’s easy work. Anyone who says it isn’t never had to stand on his feet all day dealing blackjack.”
― Dean Martin

“This is not a tough job. You read a script. If you like the part and the money is OK, you do it. Then you remember your lines. You show up on time. You do what the director tells you to do. When you finish, you rest and then go on to the next part. That’s it.”
― Robert Mitchum


“I cut tobacco for a living in Kentucky. That was hard work. I sold insurance door-to-door. That’s hard work. Acting is not hard work. If you’re lucky enough to be sitting at a table like this, you’ve been very lucky in your life. You caught the brass ring somewhere along the way.”
― George Clooney


“When I told Lindsay Anderson that acting was just a sophisticated way of playing cowboys and Indians, he almost had a fit.” ― John Hurt


“I despise those prick actors who say, ‘I was in character,’ and ‘I became the character,’ and all that stuff. It’s hideous.” ― Johnny Depp


“I’m a skilled, professional actor. Whether I’ve got any talent is beside the point.” ― Michael Caine

Yes, there are some rules and tricks of the trade, but that comes with any profession. When someone lies, they are acting. A common bit, originally by Jon Lovitz, is for a character to tell a very dramatic lie, then turn around and announce that they were “ACTING!!!!” When someone lies, they are acting. They’re acting like fake is real, and we all do it. It’s a cliche in comedies for a character to be a bad liar, and when they try to lie they act awkward and stupid, but nobody really does that.

There’s no one who hasn’t lied to their parents, or their significant other, or made up an excuse. The difference is when you told your manager you missed work ’cause you had to go to a funeral, and you “acted” sad, you weren’t super nervous, anxious, self conscious, and over thinking it; like someone who’s not used to acting would be with people watching them on stage, in front of cameras, or at an audition. You can say learning to be comfortable acting is talent, but it’s negligible. The very successful actors and actresses above said acting is easy. You should believe them. What Meryl Streep did was easy. What Donald Trump did was almost impossible and far, far beyond the abilities of most people.


Here’s more of Debbie Schlussel: We’re all sick and tired of hearing the 2016 Presidential race relitigated. Donald Trump won, but Hollywoodites refuse to accept. They know better than the “little people” who’ve made them zillionaires who do $1,000 facials.

What Meryl Streep (in her fugly mirror jacket) lectured us about–the allegation that Donald Trump mocked a disabled New York Times reporter–has been told to the country and the world multiple times and then some more. We’re aware of it. We decided we’d rather have that than the woman whose campaign mocked Catholics, Christians and pretty much anyone who isn’t a vegan tranny Muslim knitting circle member in Southside Chicago. And I never believed Trump was mocking that guy–although some of my friends insist he was. To me, Trump has always used his hands in a violently expressive way to mock everyone he hates from Ted Cruz to Hillary Clinton. It was just bad luck on Trump’s part that this resembled the NYT guy’s disability.

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