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  • He was much admir'd by King Charles, who us'd to distinguish him when spoke of by the Title of his Actor: Which however makes me imagine that in his Exile that Prince might have receiv'd his first Impression of good Actors from the French Stage; for Leigh had more of that farcical Vivacity than Nokes; but Nokes was never languid by his more strict Adherence to Nature, and as far as my Judgment is worth taking, if their intrinsick Merit could be justly weigh'd, Nokes must have had the better in the Balance.

    An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, Volume I 1889

  • By the time I got to do my first feature, in ’77, The Duellists, which was with a certain tough guy called Harvey Keitel … He was what they call Actors Studio and all that—Method acting and that kind of thing.

    RIDLEY SCOTT IS TRICKY 2008

  • With Congress and the President standing up a figureheads to divert responsibility – and hopefully, rifle fire — away from the main Actors.

    Matthew Yglesias » The Actually Existing Constitution 2010

  • (And yes, for the record, I'm still eying that course at CityLit entitled Actors Singing From West End to Broadway.)

    Delia Lloyd: Continuing Education: The Importance of Experimentation 2010

  • Annette is a co-chair of the capital campaign for something called the Actors Fund.

    Jonathan Tisch: A Helping Hand For Those Who Work In The Arts 2009

  • Robbins went to UCLA, where he majored in drama and helped to found an antiestablishment group called the Actors 'Gang.

    Two-Coast Man 2008

  • The Actors are the abnormal and exceptional people, born out of due time, at variance with the environment; that is why they are Actors.

    Impressions and Comments Havelock Ellis 1899

  • Rabbi Birstein, who died in 1959, made actors feel welcome, and the shul became known as the Actors' Temple; Conservative services on the High Holy Days were brimming.

    NYT > Home Page By JOSEPH BERGER 2011

  • Tickets can be purchased online at www. actorstheatrephx.org or by calling Actors Theatre at (602) 253-6701.

    BroadwayWorld.com Featured Content 2010

  • For information, call the Actors 'Rural Theatre box office at 253-6699.

    News-Gazette.com e.p. 2010

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