The phrase "act myself" is not standard in written English and may cause confusion.
It could be used in contexts where someone is expressing the idea of being true to their own nature or personality, but it is not commonly used.
Example: "In social situations, I always try to act myself rather than put on a facade."
Alternatives: "be myself" or "stay true to myself".
I was walking across the quad when a startling thought came to me: to implement the new concept called originality that was presenting itself in my classes in literature, poetry, and philosophy, I would have to write everything in my comedy act myself.
I looked at the Licensing Act myself, and it does seem relatively straightforward.
We have a song we sing, words by one of our old-time rabbis, which says: "If I am not for myself, who am I? And if I don't act for myself, what am I? And if not now, when?" So the more the world powers (and the media) turn against us, the more we must rely on our own strengths.
"It felt like the moment I arrived here I was seen as who I truly am, and could just act like myself".
"As soon as the attention started coming, it went to my head, and at first I didn't act like myself at all," she says.
His own description of his technique was "working from the outside in"; he said, "I can never act as myself, I have to have a pillow up my jumper, a false nose or a moustache or wig.
It is my heritage to stand erect and unafraid; to think and act for myself...to face the world boldly and say: This, with God's help I have done.
Then, there's a script that I am finishing up, to direct and act in myself, that's my solo first feature and that's called Ron Quixote, a loose adaptation of Don Quixote, that I hope will be very funny and entertaining.
Would she like for me to act like myself?
Mann also tells some good anecdotes, such as this one about trying to cast nonactors from among the inmates of Folsom Prison in 1978: One of the ones I had offered a role refused and said: "If I let myself act in your movie, it would be as if I let you appropriate the surplus-value of my bad karma".
