How to Use acting in a Sentence
- Her acting is unusually good in this film.
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So much of acting is just waiting for the moment to come to you.
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Fran Hoepfner,
Vulture,
7 Dec. 2023
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The acting is bluff and hearty, but the real stars are the sunflowers.
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Richard Brody,
The New Yorker,
19 Mar. 2024
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How did the acting of it surprise you throughout the process?
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Esther Zuckerman,
The Hollywood Reporter,
8 Aug. 2023
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He’s also flexed his acting skills in the new White Men Can’t Jump, a reboot of the 1992 film.
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Jason Sheeler,
Peoplemag,
9 June 2023
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Yes, sometimes the acting might leave... a bit to be desired.
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Evan Romano,
Men's Health,
13 May 2023
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By the looks of it, their onscreen chemistry wasn’t just great acting.
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Selena Barrientos,
Good Housekeeping,
14 Apr. 2023
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Maybe this is a reminder that all awards shows should drop the genres and just go with best acting.
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Michael Schneider,
Variety,
11 Dec. 2023
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Despite the strong acting, through, the pacing seems a little off.
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Pat Padua,
Washington Post,
19 Dec. 2023
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Over there, a lot of the acting was very big and grandiose because soap operas are so prevalent.
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William Earl,
Variety,
8 Dec. 2023
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In it, the actor wore a 1964 t-shirt with a photo of himself in his early acting days.
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Kelly Wynne,
Peoplemag,
18 Mar. 2024
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But the joys of acting were not lost on Margolis either.
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Marianne Garvey,
CNN,
4 Aug. 2023
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In 2021, the Gothams decided the awards for acting would no longer be defined by gender.
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Clayton Davis,
Variety,
24 Oct. 2023
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With acting, someone has to put you in a project, but a writer can just go make something right now.
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Seija Rankin,
The Hollywood Reporter,
20 Oct. 2023
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This kind of acting can go south, the eyebrows dancing while the face remains strangely still.
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Vulture,
4 May 2023
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As big as her characters can be, her acting grounds them.
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Andy Hoglund,
EW.com,
9 Apr. 2023
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The really big trick to phone acting is not to look at the person who’s standing in to read the lines that are supposed to be on the other end.
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Seija Rankin,
The Hollywood Reporter,
26 Apr. 2023
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How has being a mom shifted your passion for acting, or has it?
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Randee Dawn,
Los Angeles Times,
31 May 2023
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In addition to their off-the-charts chemistry on screen, Buono notes that the pair had two very different acting styles.
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Sydney Odman,
The Hollywood Reporter,
2 June 2023
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Most of your earlier acting was in comedic or more glamorous roles.
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Gary Goldstein,
Los Angeles Times,
9 Jan. 2024
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Read on for the Harper’s Bazaar Icon’s thoughts on acting, resistance, and exile.
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Rosa Sanchez,
Harper's BAZAAR,
16 Aug. 2023
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But again, that’s where my acting started, so my heart will always be with theater.
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Kailyn Brown,
Los Angeles Times,
29 Sep. 2023
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And American acting was like the same piece of furniture, a bit more funky, but real.
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Michael Ordoña,
Los Angeles Times,
13 June 2023
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From her late 40s through her 50s, Foster barely did any acting.
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Jordan Kisner,
The Atlantic,
18 Feb. 2024
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Since the Academy can be more cinephile-friendly in its picks than the precursors, fans held out hope for a stray acting nod or two.
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Vulture,
23 Jan. 2024
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But if the structure is flawed, the acting and characterization of the central trio are not.
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Alan Sepinwall,
Rolling Stone,
27 Oct. 2023
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Her screen acting debut came in 1950s The Goldbergs, and her breakthrough role quickly followed.
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Shania Russell,
EW.com,
1 Apr. 2024
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So those were always two parallel paths in my life, music and acting.
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Scott Roxborough,
The Hollywood Reporter,
8 Mar. 2024
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As acting goes, Buffett even had a cameo in a 1994 baseball movie filmed at Birmingham’s Rickwood Field.
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Joseph Goodman | Jgoodman@al.com,
al,
2 Sep. 2023
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The Gothams also altered their categories for acting awards to no longer be defined by gender in 2021.
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Caroline Brew,
Variety,
27 Nov. 2023
- The college's acting president will be replaced with a permanent one next fall.
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One is on top of the fashion world, the other the acting scene.
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Laura Lane,
Peoplemag,
19 Dec. 2022
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Carrère had agreed to take a small acting role in the movie, which would star Ben Whishaw.
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Ian Parker,
The New Yorker,
4 July 2022
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If there were an award for most acting, these guys would rate high.
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Peter Rainer,
The Christian Science Monitor,
24 Mar. 2022
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Murphy's first acting role in the late 1990s turned into his big break.
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Julie Tremaine,
PEOPLE.com,
9 June 2022
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The Kristine Carlson Story, which marks the star's first acting project in five years.
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Liz McNeil,
PEOPLE.com,
13 Oct. 2021
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Pendley, a lawyer, became acting head of the BLM in late July.
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Mike Spies,
ProPublica,
20 Sep. 2019
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He's also appeared in Mozart in the Jungle and had his first major acting role in 2006.
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Milan Polk,
Men's Health,
11 Nov. 2022
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Now 23, Woods is making her acting debut in the indie film Goldie.
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Ineye Komonibo,
refinery29.com,
21 Feb. 2020
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What was the first acting role that really challenged you?
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Michael Schulman,
The New Yorker,
12 June 2022
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Kotsur is the first deaf actor to be nominated and win a sole acting prize at the SAG Awards.
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Thr Staff,
The Hollywood Reporter,
27 Feb. 2022
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What was the journey to this end point like for you from an acting and emotional standpoint?
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Chancellor Agard,
EW.com,
26 Aug. 2021
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But the actress was so much more than a Kansas farm girl in a blue gingham dress, and her acting range reached far beyond the land of Oz.
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Maureen Lee Lenker,
EW.com,
23 Aug. 2019
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The son of Russian immigrants, Adler got his first acting role in the Yiddish theater at age 5 and went on to play Hitler.
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Lior Zaltzman,
sun-sentinel.com,
24 Oct. 2019
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This led to a last-minute audition for Ludacris, who took on his first major acting role in the Fast sequel.
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Nick Romano,
EW.com,
12 Aug. 2021
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Meghan Markle may be better known as the Duchess of Sussex these days, but her acting career isn't too far behind her.
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Erica Gonzales,
Harper's BAZAAR,
23 July 2019
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Maggie Smith Dame Maggie Smith has the second-most acting wins of any actress.
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Wesley Stenzel,
EW.com,
14 Feb. 2024
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This will be by far Kardashian's biggest acting role to date.
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Brendan Morrow,
The Week,
10 Apr. 2023
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Nell Sutton makes her acting debut as the younger version of Marie-Laure.
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Selome Hailu,
Variety,
3 Feb. 2022
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For now, the young brothers said, getting more acting work is the priority.
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Chris Foran,
Journal Sentinel,
21 June 2022
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Amsterdam is not the first acting role for the 11-time Grammy Award winner.
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Amethyst Tate,
Peoplemag,
17 Aug. 2022
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Here are some early thoughts about how the acting categories are shaping up.
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Gerrad Hall,
EW.com,
17 May 2023
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But as acting mayor, she was chosen to serve the remainder of Moscone’s term and would go on to win two mayoral elections.
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Terry Castleman,
Los Angeles Times,
29 Sep. 2023
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Both Baillio and Cannon had sweet words for Cabello and her first acting role.
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Tomás Mier,
PEOPLE.com,
1 Sep. 2021
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Greenberg, however, is quick to distance himself from the dance and acting worlds.
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Stephanie Sporn,
Harper's BAZAAR,
2 May 2023
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Joey Bada$$ grabbed the attention of the acting world starring as Leon in the popular Mr. Robot series.
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Michael Saponara,
Billboard,
6 June 2019
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This isn't the first time she's tried a completely different hairstyle for an acting role.
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Gabi Thorne,
Allure,
3 June 2022
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Jackie Aprile was named acting boss, much to the chagrin of Junior Soprano.
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Josh Newman,
The Salt Lake Tribune,
11 Mar. 2022
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My sketching is no good anymore, my dancing never was good and acting is getting tougher to do.
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Alexandra Schonfeld,
PEOPLE.com,
3 June 2022
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But the star does have a development on a non-acting front: he's written another book!
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Katie Bowlby,
Country Living,
15 Feb. 2023
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