"I can push Tim to places where ordinary actors don't go," Mr. Leigh says by telephone.
The churches are also ordinary economic actors, and yet must judge themselves by higher standards of conduct than the surrounding society, according to the Scriptures.
But this was no ordinary cast of actors.
But, at least in a democracy, ordinary citizens are actors as well as observers.
He has trained technicians, established a distribution network, made ordinary citizens into actors, mentored other filmmakers.
In his philosophy, life and theater are related enterprises; ordinary citizens are actors who are simply unaware of the play, and everyone can make theater, even the untrained.
Another man followed and as they talked, aware, it seemed, of my glances but impervious to them too, I really believed they were not ordinary people but actors dressed as ordinary people in rumpled suits and laddered tights and smudged eyeliner, just so.
The protagonist is usually a reflector, not an actor, an ordinary man or woman whose life is blown off course by the storm of great events.
The judges said she was "subtle, nuanced and utterly compelling, an incredibly skilled and extraordinary portrayal of an ordinary woman by an actor at the height of her powers".
Watson was praised for her "incredibly skilled and extraordinary portrayal of an ordinary woman by an actor at the height of her powers".
