Sentence examples for acting a scene from inspiring English sources

The more we film — and indisputably, we film a lot today — the more time our kids are, to one degree or another, knowingly acting a scene for the camera rather than just being present.

"That's probably what waits for me". He starts acting a scene with a fruity English voice: "Oo-oh-ooo [he emits a flutey, long-drawn-out sound, impossible to capture in print], there was nobody here.

When, in the pilot, President Josiah Bartlett, played by Martin Sheen, trundles into a shot, bemusedly declaiming, "Thou shalt have no other God before me," Mr. Sheen's relish in acting a scene he knows will play to the back of the house is just as affecting as the speech itself.

Matthew Gray Gubler, who plays Spencer Reid on the crime drama Criminal Minds moments before acting a scene in front of the Glendale Police Department.

The subsequent furor led Televisa, the country's biggest network, to dismiss both Reza and Tovar, arguing that they had been inappropriately acting a scene of sexual harassment on live TV.

For Acting, a scene study class, we performed the last two acts of Summerfolk by the late nineteenth-century Russian playwright Maxim Gorky.

Also, only the toughest viewer can withhold sympathy for Cotillard, whose proud and pleading gaze would have made her a star in the silent era, and whose emotional yield is so unstinting that she seems to be acting a nude scene even when fully clothed.

Sachs and Judah had seen Grimes' work before and knew "she had the acting chops", and she was cast after acting a dramatic scene which she "just killed".

Watch his eyes, particularly in a second-act flashback when you see Hush acting out a scene he has previously described.

She plays some footage of her and Lord acting out a scene – with some feeling, it must be said.

Spacey was acting out a scene in which Darrow makes a passionate plea for his innocence - when a ringing phone interrupted him.