Definition of Actor

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Definition of Actor
	Actor One who acts, or takes part in any affair; a doer. A theatrical performer; a stageplayer. An advocate or proctor in civil courts or causes. One who institutes a suit; plaintiff or complainant. Related Definitions: Advocate, Affair, An, Any, Civil, Complainant, Doer, In, One, Or, Part, Performer, Plaintiff, Proctor, Stageplayer, Suit, Theatrical, Who

Actor Quotations

How can a president not be an actor?
Ronald Reagan

Show me a great actor and I'll show you a lousy husband. Show me a great actress, and you've seen the devil.
W. C. Fields

There is but one stage for the peasant and the actor.
Henry David Thoreau

While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.
Oscar Wilde

Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide; he exposes himself.
Rodney Dangerfield

When they asked Jack Benny to do something for the Actor's Orphanage - he shot both his parents and moved in.
Bob Hope

The real joy is in constructing a sentence. But I see myself as an actor first because writing is what you do when you are ready and acting is what you do when someone else is ready.
Steve Martin

An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so must be willing to accept all the experiences life has to offer. In fact, he must seek out more of life than life puts at his feet.
James Dean

When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn't acting. It's following instructions. Anyone with the physical qualifications can do that.
James Dean

Studying cows, pigs and chickens can help an actor develop his character. There are a lot of things I learned from animals. One was that they couldn't hiss or boo me.
James Dean

Actor Translations

actor in Afrikaans is akteur
actor in Danish is skuespiller
actor in Dutch is speler, komediant, acteur
actor in German is Schauspieler, Schauspieler {m}, Akteur
actor in Italian is attore
actor in Latin is ludio
actor in Norwegian is skuespiller
actor in Portuguese is actor, ator
actor in Spanish is actor

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