Sentence examples for profession acting from inspiring English sources

It was here that the teen-aged Ellen Terry was "rescued" from her abominable family profession — acting — by the Prinseps' artist-in-residence, George Watts, who married her when she was sixteen and he forty-seven.

Ms. Jackson, 54, is off her feet and away from her desired profession — acting and voice-over work — because of a tumble she took down the stairs almost three years ago while chasing her cat, Mommy's Boy.

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Far be it from to belittle the noble profession of acting, but you suspect he doesn't so much act as just turn up, neck a few Stellas and be himself in front of the camera.

"Singing is my profession, but acting is my passion".

However, the article does bring up an interesting argument regarding the profession of acting.

That doesn't mean I would ever shit on the profession of acting.

They adapt in a way I've rarely seen in any other profession besides acting.

The story is drawn from an episode in "A Spanish Play" (2004), a drama about the profession of acting that is more self-consciously literary than most of Reza's playwriting.

As he made clear in the course of a 90-minute conversation, during which he was more or less good-natured though not exactly approachable, Mr. Bale does not like to talk about himself, his life, his work and certainly not about the notion of craft as it applies to what he called "the extremely silly profession" of acting.

Turturro portrays Huggins as a monster of vanity, a legend in his own eyes whose tall tales about working with Stanley Kubrick are matched by his difficulty learning his lines, and who boasts loudly about his selfless love of the art form while turning with wrathful contempt on Margherita, her project, and his own profession of acting when things go wrong on the set.