If you're looking for like, a pure base for your behavior on stage, maybe it's better to say, "Yeah, you're not obliged to pretend. But, you're also obliged to not pretend. " So you have access to both sides, if you will. It's never a pure binary thing, but you can pretend. If you have total agency as a performer, then both are at your disposal.
I shall be obliged to wander to the right and to the left, that I may investigate and discover the truth.
That which may have sounded like righteous teaching when it was remote and wordy, will be challenged afresh when it is obliged to simulate life itself.
Much as I venerate the name of Newton, I am not obliged to believe that he was infallible. I see. . . with regret that he was liable to err, and that his authority has, perhaps, sometimes even retarded the progress of science.
You and I have formerly seen warm debates and high political passions. But gentlemen of different politics would then speak to each other and separate the business of the Senate from that of society. It is not so now. Men who have been intimate all their lives, cross the streets to avoid meeting, and turn their heads another way, lest they should be obliged to touch their hats. This may do for young men with whom passion is enjoyment. But it is afflicting to peaceable minds. Tranquility is the old man's milk.
I have nine children. . . and one of them is an invalid. Her mother is obliged to take her away in the winter, and when one bird is off the nest, the other has to go on.
It is the service we are not obliged to give that people value most.
The country only has charms for those not obliged to stay there.
The greatest monarch on the proudest throne is obliged to sit upon his own arse.
Hath God obliged himself not to exceed the bounds of our knowledge?
It is true from early habit, one must make love mechanically as one swims; I was once very fond of both, but now as I never swim unless I tumble into the water, I don't make love till almost obliged.
I think ex-Soviet or Russian-Jewish women are tougher and that comes through. And if they are more pragmatic than the men, it's because they are obliged to be. They have all the female responsibilities and all the male responsibilities.
Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.
I have a backlog of novels which I would love to be working on and would be working on if I were not obliged to hold down a full time job.
To be Christian is to be obliged to engage the world, pursuing God's restorative purposes over all of life.
No one is obliged to be a genius, but everyone is obliged to participate.
I don't always see my movies right away. And there are some I haven't seen at all. Sometimes that bothers the directors, so I'm obliged to see them.
Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talk that would describe it as interesting are obliged to exaggerate, in the hope of justifying their own existence.
A sermon is a valuable thing now and so impressive when you do hear a good one - and there is a lot of failure in the attempt; it's a difficult form - is because it's so seldom true now that you hear people speak under circumstances where they assume they are obliged to speak seriously and in good faith, and the people who hear them are assumed to be listening seriously and in good faith.
Since we are not permitted to act, we are obliged to know.