Sentence examples for a poor actor from inspiring English sources

Barry is the self as actor, and a poor actor at that.

He emphasises that he was a poor actor ("I wouldn't have employed me") and so became an assistant director at Northampton Rep for a year, then in 1963 landed a job as a trainee director at the BBC.

(Some reports suggest that Goldfaden himself was a poor singer, or even a non-singer and poor actor; according to Bercovici, these reports stem from Goldfaden's own self-disparaging remarks or from his countenance as an old man in New York, but contemporary reports show him to have been a decent, though not earth-shattering, actor and singer).

On TV, some poor actor was actually given a kind of "ball of saggy painted calico, with eyes" to waggle on his shoulders as a second head.

"I didn't want to be a poor, starving actor," she says.

Expect to see a lot of footage in the various TV documentaries of some poor actor who looks vaguely like Fleming sitting at a typewriter, alternatively looking thoughtfully into the distance or tapping away at the keys.

Stepping into biopic territory typically means unleashing a pandora's box of complications, be it from poor actor selection, weak storytelling, or conflicting views on the artistic vision.

A bucket of squidgy tomatoes appear and we all get to aim for the poor actor's head as he languishes in the stocks.

Still, it seems the cruelest forms are those that dog the poor actor.

In other news, the poor actor gets caught with his hands down his pants in Sydney.

The poor actor had to grunt on stage for two hours.