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Discover LudwigThe phrase "acting to be" is not correct in standard written English
It may be intended to convey the idea of performing or behaving in a certain way, but it is not a commonly used expression. Example: "He was acting to be someone he wasn't."
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Studies on human emotion expression that employ acted behavior either focus on prototypical behavior or assume acting to be analogous to authentic emotional expression, both in terms of its production by the sender and its effect on the receiver (Belin, Fillion-Bilodeau, & Gosselin, 2008; Ethofer et al., 2006; Hietanen, Surakka, & Linnankoski, 1998; Laukka, 2005).
So is acting to be his only career now?
The episode informed another key role in which Quick found little acting to be required.
There is little differentiation between the various vocal lines, and no real acting to be done.
You're looking for where you're doing your acting to be in the most optimum set of conditions.
He wants "to make the world laugh"; she wants acting to be more than pratfalls and guffaws.
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In the past you've traced your interest in acting to being a 3-year-old "Doctor Who" fan.
It is acting to cry and be scared," she says.
I found her taste - in plays and in acting - to be infallible, even if she was always tentative about asserting it, and she had an unerring ear, nose and eye, for the bogus.
"The No. 1 thing you strive for in acting is to be unself-conscious," Baldwin says.
Steve feels they must go to acting school to be able to fight in the rink.
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