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 actorcan do nothing badly, and there was so very much to admire in Henry Irving's Benedick.
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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