As this question is tagged with Act V, do you mean what Antony says about Brutus? If so, Antony is not acting. First of all he realizes that Brutus has killed Caesar for noble reasons. Afterall, Brutus himself states in his oration after Caesar's death that he did love Caesar: "Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more." Antony's oration after Caesar's death is filled with verbal irony in the hopes of turning the people against the conspirators who, besides Brutus, were envious men and were simply out for their personal gain.
When Brutus dies after battles and failures in Act V, Antony lauds Brutus because he realizes that all that Brutus has done has been for patriotic and honest reasons:
This was the noblest Roman of them all./All the conspirators save only he/Did that they did in envy of great Caesar;/ He, only in a general honest thought/And common good to all, made one of them.
Antony explains in the last line that out of an effort for Rome and the common good, Brutus joined the others. Otherwise, this "gentle" man would not have committed the deeds he has.
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