"Laymen always accuse actors of acting. Because we can portray genuine emotion, we're supposed to be unable to feel it. It's the oldest charge made against us."
— Acting

January 1, 1970

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Originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (September 1963). Reprinted in Judith Merril (ed.), The 9th Annual of the Year’s Best S-F, p. 136