Daily Inspiration Quote by Lusia Strus

Strus is making a quiet case for acting as craft, not branding. In an era when performers are nudged toward being “content” as much as they are artists, her pull toward “traditional theatre” reads like a refusal: a desire to disappear into a role instead of constantly reasserting a marketable self. “Make believe again” has the faint ache of someone who’s been living too long in the adult economy of auditions, networking, and camera-ready personas. The word “again” is the tell. It implies a return to a more childlike, purer engine for performance: play.

The line about “a costume” is doing double duty. On the surface it’s joyful, tactile, almost backstage-giddy. Underneath, it signals relief at the permission theatre offers: you can be someone else without having to explain or justify it. Film and TV often trade on authenticity, on the audience’s sense that the actor’s “real” self is peeking through. Strus is choosing the opposite pleasure: transformation as a kind of freedom.

Her respect for playwrights is also a pointed bit of cultural alignment. It elevates the writer as the primary author of meaning, a subtle pushback against celebrity culture where the actor becomes the text. In theatre, the script is law, the community is the product, and the nightly repetition is a discipline. Strus isn’t romanticizing; she’s declaring allegiance to an older hierarchy where the work, not the persona, is what lasts.