“I love being Spanish as much as I love being Irish, and I really love being Irish.”
Martin Sheen (1940) American actor
1990s, Inside the Actors Studio (1994)
“Being Irish is, no matter how real, a pose.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
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Conor Cruise O'Brien (1917–2008) Irish politician
"Irishness", in New Statesman, January 17, 1959
Written under the pseudonym Donat O'Donnell.
“Being natural is simply a pose, and the most irritating pose I know.”
Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
LeBron James (1984) American basketball player
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“Acting is illusion, as much illusion as magic is — and not so much a matter of being real.”
Laurence Olivier (1907–1989) British actor, director and producer
As quoted in Famous Actors and Actresses on the American Stage (1975) by William C. Young, p. 885
Context: Acting is illusion, as much illusion as magic is — and not so much a matter of being real. I mean, I would probably shock Lee Strasberg.
Peter F. Drucker (1909–2005) American business consultant
Source: 1960s - 1980s, MANAGEMENT: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (1973), Part 1, p. 317
“No matter how much you plan for it, the real thing seems curiously, well, unreal.”
Gregory Benford book Timescape
Source: Timescape (1980), Chapter 37 (p. 395)