The phrase "acting variously" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone performing in different ways or exhibiting a range of behaviors or roles.
Example: "The actor was praised for acting variously in the film, showcasing his versatility in portraying multiple characters."
Alternatives: "performing diversely" or "behaving in different ways".
I co-founded a tchotchke business in the '80s, acting variously as designer, product developer, bookkeeper, general dogsbody, and, in frequent dashes to New York, marketer and party planner.
We see a lot of Carolyn, since she hovers so close to Ann -- acting variously as her bodyguard, deal maker and M.C. when she makes her wilted bullhorn speeches to the followers.
Royal commissions are litigation-like beasts, and there will no doubt be some of the country's most skilled litigators acting on behalf of the variously interested parties, and Gooda will have to get used to keeping them in line.
Alumni of Linklater's early movies have variously ended up as acting hobbyists and as stars.
He himself touched on this dichotomy in his variously reported comments that acting was "merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing" or, alternatively, "dreaming to order".
Davidson treats the connection between reason and action (where the reason is indeed the reason for the action) as a connection that obtains between two events (the agent's believing and desiring on the one hand and her acting on the other) that can be variously described.
There's nothing here that doesn't have some kind of clown motif -- an artist acting like one or an inescapably clownish aura, variously exuberant, silly, incompetent, abject or grotesque.
Right now it consists of three men acting out movement patterns for 25 minutes in a variously lighted rectangle, not very subtly reflective of the music or its structure.
'Acting Like He's White' Earlier this fall, the Rev. Jesse Jackson, an Obama supporter who ran for president twice, was quoted by a reporter as saying Mr. Obama "needs to stop acting like he's white" (words that Mr. Jackson has variously said that he would never say and that were taken out of context).
The deduced product of the single PKS module (KS-AT-DH-ER-KR-ACP), acting iteratively, is an acyl chain, either completely reduced or variously functionalized if the reduction domains are not all used during each of the elongation steps.
Japanese officials have claimed, variously, that their ship was not at fault during the encounter, that the Shonan Maru No. 2 was acting defensively because the Sea Shepherd volunteers were conducting "acts of sabotage" and were operating within "collision distance".
