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Actor   /ˈæktər/   Listen
noun
Actor  n.  
1.
One who acts, or takes part in any affair; a doer.
2.
A theatrical performer; a stageplayer. "After a well graced actor leaves the stage."
3.
(Law)
(a)
An advocate or proctor in civil courts or causes.
(b)
One who institutes a suit; plaintiff or complainant.






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"Actor" Quotes from Famous Books



... all actor then? That which I feigned I felt, and when it was my cue to kiss her, The whole of childhood rushed into the kiss. When it was in my part to cling about her, I clung about her mad with memories. The water in my eyes rose from my soul, And flooding from the heart ran down my cheek. Did my ...
— Nero • Stephen Phillips

... saints of God, namely, the Puritans. According to Cotton Mather's Wonders of the Invisible World, at the trial of one of these martyrs to superstition, George Burroughs, he was accused by eight of the confessing witches "as being the head actor at some of their hellish rendezvouzes, and one who had the promise of being a king in Satan's kingdom, now going to be erected. One of them falling into a kind of trance affirmed that G.B. had carried her away into a very high mountain, ...
— Woman's Life in Colonial Days • Carl Holliday

... Herr Timothy a capable twentieth-century young character actor by the name of Highsmith, who besought engagement as "Sol Haytosser," the comic and chief male character part in ...
— The Voice of the City • O. Henry

... Colonel asked some of our men to dine with him at his hotel and took them to the theatre afterwards. On another occasion, five of our men were sitting in the front row of one of the theatres when an actor gave an impersonation of the different sovereigns of Europe. When he appeared as King George, the orchestra struck up our National Anthem, and at once our men rose up and stood to attention. One of them told me afterwards ...
— The Great War As I Saw It • Frederick George Scott

... Henderson, the actor, was seldom known to be in a passion. When at Oxford, he was one day debating with a fellow student, who, not keeping his temper, threw a glass of wine in his face. Mr. Henderson took out his handkerchief, wiped his face, and coolly said, "That, sir, ...
— The Bed-Book of Happiness • Harold Begbie


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