Sentence examples for as a great actor from inspiring English sources

Mr. Shatner says, "I never thought of myself as a great actor, like Olivier".

Hartnell's tenure as the first Doctor has ensured his legacy as a great actor.

"Just as a great actor needs to win Academy Awards, a great knight needed to be seen fighting in big tournaments and winning".

When he died in 1984, at 58, he was mourned as a great actor who had never fulfilled his early promise.

But the same things were said (and were true) of Laurence Olivier and never stood in the way of his being regarded as a great actor.

In an interview with USA Today, the president diplomatically referred to the ageing Hollywood legend as a "great actor, and an even better director".

I do know Nick Nolte was as dissipated as he was a great actor, before he was reduced to a mug shot and Medusa-like hair flowing into pathos.

And that's why he's going to be a great actor as long as he wants to be.

But Murphy — whose talents are manifold and who's a great actor as well as a great comedian — hasn't found the filmmaker to make substantial use of his art, hasn't found the Martin Scorsese for his own "The King of Comedy" or, for that matter, the Wes Anderson or the Sofia Coppola for his own dramatic rebirth, such as Bill Murray's in "Rushmore" and "Lost in Translation".

I find it's easier to get what I want from a guy who's 90percentt right as the character and can act a little than from a guy who's not as right and who's a great actor.

The production's mediocrity is only emphasized by Crudup, whose Foster is as sharp and menacing as a knife; he's a great actor joyfully working inside Pinter's outrageous humor, and perverse sense of tragedy.