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Example sentences for "great actor"

  • He had left the town many years before and it was reported had become a great actor.

  • He desired to imitate him, travel all over the land and become a great actor, a greater actor than even his heroic model, as Alfred had never heard Tony's great feats described.

  • Alfred's best friends filled him with the false idea that he was a great actor, that he was being abused and thwarted.

  • Nevertheless, her judgment was, that he played "well, very well; but there was too little of him wherewith to make a great actor!

  • Passing through London he saw John Kemble and Mrs. Siddons, in Wolsey and Constance--and he registered a vow that he would be there a great actor, too!

  • A great actor can do nothing badly, and there was so very much to admire in Henry Irving's Benedick.

  • I never consciously thought that he would become a great actor.

  • Did he not in his own book quote gleefully from an obituary notice published on a false report of his death, the summary: "Never a great actor, he was invaluable in small parts.

  • The wives of great actor-managers must early inure themselves to champagne.

  • Your work is to help Mike be a great actor, but I've got no one to help be anything.

  • Mansfield was considered a great actor by the masses.

  • Thus he went on for years, and posterity will say that he was "a great actor," "beloved by all.

  • I concede that Joseph Jefferson was "a great actor" as Rip--a most benign person, a charming companion.

  • I maintain that Mansfield was never a great actor, but a clever and gifted man--a dominant personality which asserted itself even when clothed in mediocrity.

  • The latter was, as it were, initiated into all the resources the great actor has at his command wherewith to produce his illusion upon the public.

  • When at last it had to be conceded that he was a great actor, the concession was, in many quarters, grudgingly made.

  • Such niggardly persons, in their detraction of Henry Irving, are prompt to declare that he is a capital stage manager but not a great actor.

  • That he is a unique actor, and distinctively a great actor, in Hamlet, Mathias, Eugene Aram, Louis XI.

  • There is every warrant for it in the apprehension of this tremendous subject by the imagination of a great actor.

  • And here comes a man I have never seen and who never saw me before and offers me tea and cake and gives me twenty dollars and a contract for fifty dollars a week, and who tells me I am a great actor!

  • My own wife in Russia has never seen that I was a great actor.

  • In Russia I have been a tailor twenty years, and nobody saw that I was a great actor, not even myself.

  • And now that I am such a great actor, why should I have such a little store that don't even pay for coals in the winter?

  • Such is the brief record of a great actor, one who before our civil jars was a young player, during the civil wars was a good soldier, and in the last years of Charles II.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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