Sentence examples for be an actor rather from inspiring English sources

I heard you originally wanted to be an actor rather than a writer?

But he warmed to the narrator's task whenever it involved interaction with the Soldier: in other words, whenever it allowed him to be an actor rather than merely a reader.

The actor, being an actor rather than a real sultan, didn't know.

Susannah Cibber, the first soprano soloist, was an actor rather than a singer.

"It's weird," says Allen. "There's no stigma attached to being an actor rather than a playwright, or a pianist rather than a composer, but there's this horrible stigma attached to being a translator".

This poignancy was achieved because the key to Barker - lifting him finally above even as brilliant a contemporary as Eric Morecambe - was that he was primarily an actor rather than a comic.

"This is the world of the play," said Mr. Medina, who added that he prefers to be called an actor rather than a midget or small person.

I'd rather be an actor; if you do something wrong, you get booed.

She studied acting even before college but says that despite her sisters' success, she always knew she wanted to be an adult actor rather than a child star.

You get to sit among out-of-work actor friends and remind yourself you're one of the lucky ones; you're actually in employment as an actor, rather than being a chugger, or a receptionist, or signing on and spending the day smoking weed, debating if it's worth dressing up as a gummy bear and serving vodka shots at an all-night bar for the minimum wage, because at least you'll be "in character".

Msamati has always maintained that he wants to be thought of as an actor, rather than a black actor, but he concedes that race will complicate this part.