Much to do with me...
MATTHEW: Don't you believe we project our loved ones? Don't you believe we form a picture in our head and then cast that picture like a shadow onto the person we're with? Don't you think the lover we imagine is actually more real than the one that stands before us?...
...LISA: I don't think you're describing love. You're describing vanity. If you'd like me to play the scene as though it were about myself and my image of another person's love for myself, I can do that. But I think that's cheap. And hollow. And utterly insignificant.
MATTHEW: But, perhaps that is acting.
LISA: Acting is the cold hard fact that someone is standing in front of you and you look into their eyes and they want something from you - and you from them - and through some combination of bloodshed and eloquence you find your place with each other. That is acting.
Steven Dietz, Private Eyes
...LISA: I don't think you're describing love. You're describing vanity. If you'd like me to play the scene as though it were about myself and my image of another person's love for myself, I can do that. But I think that's cheap. And hollow. And utterly insignificant.
MATTHEW: But, perhaps that is acting.
LISA: Acting is the cold hard fact that someone is standing in front of you and you look into their eyes and they want something from you - and you from them - and through some combination of bloodshed and eloquence you find your place with each other. That is acting.
Steven Dietz, Private Eyes