Sentence examples for he is a failed actor from inspiring English sources
He is a failed actor who is everywhere patronised as a colonial, especially by the toffee-nosed English theatrical types for whom he still hopefully auditions.
His self-esteem had always been a fairly frail plinth: he is a failed actor and an aspiring screenwriter, who at thirty-five is the oldest employee at Café Berkmann.
Rush makes me ashamed to be a middleaged white man and Kirk Cameron makes me ashamed to be a failed actor.
This particular demon was originally a failed actor from ancient Greece named Passalus, and on his sojourn in the 21st century he finds it useful to transform himself into a genteel British matron and former actress named Constance Simmons.
Zach Braff's character is yet again a failed actor from Los Angeles, but this time, ol' Zachie's an aimless married father instead of an aimless single 20-something.
The theme of the play is that it is unhealthy to envy the famous, and to that end it presents Jerry Schiff John Pankoww), a failed actor who is about to eat crow and go to work for his father's concrete business.
Philip Seymour Hoffman, in his slobby mode, is Reuben's best friend, Sandy Lyle, a failed actor clinging to his one fading moment of semi-fame who is reduced to playing Judas in a community theater production of "Jesus Christ Superstar!" Alec Baldwin, shamelessly hamming it up as Reuben's go-getting boss, is a New York Jewish caricature.
All are framed within the narrative of Joe, a failed actor who discovers he can make other people dream and who sets himself up as a kind of therapist/dream detective.
He is a marvelous actor".
