Sentence examples for doofus actor from inspiring English sources
This introverted Goh Nakamura is hired to teach a doofus actor to play guitar in a film, which, it turns out, has a screenplay based on Goh's life.
Watching him in Valkyrie, it's hard not to be reminded of Tom DiCillo's indie satire Living in Oblivion, in which doofus actor Chad Palamino (James LeGros playing a character not at all based on Brad Pitt, whom DiCillo had directed in Johnny Suede) steals the cameraman's eyepatch to wear with his tuxedo.
In the film, which is one long flashback recounting the life of its title character, Mr. Van Peebles is both narrator and actor, playing the doofus at all ages: child in a Chicago tenement; teenager washing dishes in Harlem; young man traveling the world with the merchant marine; older and wiser man (hence "ex" doofus) returning to New York and the woman he loves.
Whether he is understatedly romantic alongside Zooey Deschanel in All the Real Girls (which he co-wrote with Green), or playing a doofus in the smart dark comedy Live Free or Die, Schneider is reminiscent of a young Jack Lemmon (an actor for whom he expressed tremendous admiration).
Did they call Philip Roth a doofus?
"We needed more of that lovable doofus".
Even his stepfather called him Doofus.
"Go see your own wife, doofus!" she shouted after me.
Jesse, once a doofus, has become downright astute.
