Sentence examples for instead of an actor from inspiring English sources

"Maybe I should be a musician instead of an actor," Jacob said.

The university's dental school uses an avatar in the virtual world instead of an actor when students practise their interviewing skills to elicit patients' symptoms.

Mr. Calzolari, asked if he had any anxiety about returning to the American art world on such a large stage, recounted advice once given to him by his friend the actor Marcello Mastroianni, who liked to introduce himself as a comedian instead of an actor, to lower expectations.

"Instead of an actor's exercise, it was an exercise in not cracking up," Clooney said.

In some predominantly African-American areas, Olympic gold medalist Jesse Owens was hired to make appearances instead of an actor playing Forbes.

Instead of an actor playing, say, Sebastian, you get an actor holding or otherwise manipulating a puppet (all superbly designed by Jesse Mooney-Bullock) that is Sebastian.

This goes first because mine just fucked up this dream I was having where Hugh Laurie was my boyfriend, but instead of being an actor on House he was an aging punker with a lot of political opinions and, my favorite, wore a leather jacket over nothing to stay cozy in the morning.

"I think, honestly... if I went the music route first instead of being an actor, people would have been a lot more forgiving.

Partly why I did it instead of hiring an actor is that I knew it would be difficult to explain what I had in mind.

Within our film class there was definitely an aura around Danny, but it was as a director and writer instead of as an actor.

According to Ted Chapin, a committee member and the chairman of the American Theater Wing, a nonprofit that helps run the Tonys, the "Porgy" producers asked in their letter for the committee to designate the actor David Alan Grier as eligible for a featured actor Tony (instead of a lead actor Tony) for his performance as Sporting Life.