Miranda Rae Mayo Quotes

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

Being an actor is an extension of telling a story and I loved story telling as a child.

I was Aladdin, and then I was Captain Von Trapp from 'Sound Of Music' when I was 7 or 8, and then King Arthur. I was always the lead. I've always enjoyed being onstage, acting obnoxious, being someone that wasn't me, hiding behind a character.

What I enjoy most is that every day I get to play a new character.

To me acting originally became an extension of game playing.

I think finding a way to relate material to yourself can be useful to some people but acting for me is just being really good at make-pretend and lying. I've always been a great liar.

Acting is the ability to dream on cue.

I've been doing this since I was 10 years old, inhabiting different people and playing different roles.

The point of acting is to pretend you're someone else and sell a story.

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

Well, I do lie for a living. I'm an actor.

With any role, you're extending yourself and acting out things that never happened to you.

In theater, you're playing characters. You believe you're somebody else, and you're acting.

I never took acting classes, but I knew I could do it based on the skill with which I lied to my parents on a regular basis!

I wanted to be an actor. That was my real goal. But I wasn't any good at it, so I wrote my own material and acted through that. That's my idea of fun. I get to be all these things in the songs.

Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.

I love to act because I love trying on other people's skin.

To be in front of an audience and pretending, and to lie, this is the principle of acting.

Acting is a bit of a substitute for life.

Acting is something that I really love when I am doing it, as it is interesting and fun to pretend to be someone else, but I don't ever miss it when I am not doing it.

I think all actors are professional liars.

Acting gives you freedom to express your thoughts.

I was always putting on plays for my family. Usually silly ones. I used my imagination a lot, and it was something that came naturally to me.

I feel like I'm absolutely insane, and I don't think I could probably do anything else. I just love entertaining, and I feel like pretending to be people... and having that as a job is crazy.

That's what acting is: really make-believe.