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".
Massine studied acting and dancing at the Imperial School in Moscow and had almost decided to become an actor when Serge Diaghilev, seeking a replacement for Vaslav Nijinsky, invited Massine to join his company.
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 light bulb becomes an actor.
Richard was born three years later, and Edmund, the last, who became an actor, arrived when Shakespeare was 16.
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.
Bob Hoskins became an actor by accident when he accompanied a friend to an audition at London's leftwing Unity theatre in 1969, and achieved TV stardom as the doomed travelling salesman in Dennis Potter's Pennies From Heaven.
It is a feeling that persists when I read today, and especially when I act; I became an actor because I felt that when I acted, I could physically get inside the book.
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.
Yet when he became an actor, his parents rarely missed a show.
