This was the age, was it not, when an "actress" became an "actor", when a "priestess" became a "priest" – which does sound more sensible – and when a "conductress" became a "conductor".
But it's hard to imagine that pictures like "Mystery Men" (1999) and "Queen of the Damned" (2002) were what Ms. Olin had in mind when she decided to become an actor, or when she was spending long days and nights at the Royal Dramatic Theater, playing Strindberg's Miss Julie -- the mother of all femmes fatales -- for Ingmar Bergman and dreaming of a visit to the dentist.
The workers, scheduled by the governor to be on unpaid leave on Friday, say they will demonstrate outside theaters across the state showing the new action thriller "The Expendables," which features a rare cameo by the actor turned governor, who is likely to become an actor again when his term expires early next year.
Mr. Garner was grateful to acting because he never set out to become an actor but was "discovered" when he went with a friend to an audition, I believe.
When you become an actor you sign up for that, you're in the debate about what it all means.
But when you become an actor, part of it, the secret part of it, is that you don't want to work a regular nine-to-five job.
His youthful attempts to become an actor might not have been a success, but what does that matter when you can become a world-famous playwright instead?
When I saw the Elephant Man movie that David Lynch directed when I was a kid, it solidified my need to become an actor.
