From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
1.
... actors.
12&12 p.55,
Step Five
We search for an easier way -- which usually consists of the general
and fairly painless admission that when drinking we were sometimes bad actors.
2.
... actors on
a stage, suddenly realizing that ...
12&12 p.57,
Step Five
It was as if we were actors on a stage, suddenly realizing that we did not know a single line of our parts.
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