I had met him, and had reason to know that he admired my acting.

The gaiety and noise of the rehearsals, the fun of the preparations, and the shyness, which effectually prevents any good acting, all reminds me of our dear old Minto plays.

Upon which the King said, that he heard Dr. Warburton was a man of such general knowledge, that you could scarce talk with him on any subject on which he was not qualified to speak; and that his learning resembled Garrick's acting, in its universality.

Johnson sometimes ventured to criticise Garrick's acting, but here Garrick could take his full revenge.

The agony of seeing him, of hearing him praise my acting, and saying dear, trusting, loving words that would make me almost too happy, if I hadn't betrayed him, ruined his career for ever!"

As I watched I remember that I forgot the bad acting (the hero was quite atrocious), forgot the lapses of taste in the colour and arrangement of the play, forgot the artifices and elaborate originalities and false sincerities; there were, I have no doubt, many things in it all that were bad and meretriciousI was dreaming.

The audience discouraged bad acting.

Critics generally said she never equalled her first acting; though some maintained that what she had lost in power she had gained in a more accurate conception of the character.

"I am sure," said Jane, indignation glowing in her pretty face, "that if Captain Jarvis is to be an attendant, Clara must excuse my acting.

I think that far from hampering the acting, a beautiful and congruous background and harmonious costumes, representing accurately the spirit of the time in which the play is supposed to move, ought to help and inspire the actor.

If you must dispense with one or the other, why not leave out the acting?

Come Sirs, I faith, how did you like my acting?

Like most young men, I loved acting, and quite believed I would succeed.

If we will observe the actings of our own minds, we shall find that we reason best and clearest, when we only observe the connexion of the proof, without reducing our thoughts to any rule of syllogism.

They preferred acting, and with vigour.

"Those carpenters at the side are enough to ruin any acting," he said one night when he came off.

His acting I have seen, and may say to you, who will not tell it again here, I see nothing wonderful in it; but it is heresy to say so: the Duke of Argyll says, he is superior to Betterton.

"I sha'n't have those dd pigs to spoil my acting as well as the dd dog and the dd goat!" How we all laughed when Charles Reade returned from the pig-hunt to rehearsal with the brief direction to the stage manager that the pigs would be "cut out.

At this time I seem to have been always at the side watching the acting.

She would not go to the theatre to witness the acting of her own dramas; not even to see Mrs. Siddons, when she appeared as so brilliant a star.

I spoke with him but a short while ago, while I was searching for you, and he told me that I did right to come and look for you; and that the Lord would approve my acting so, and would surely help me to find you, which has come to pass.

No profession, but action was wanted; and he exhorted his hearers never to cease acting, until the government took the high ground necessary to secure to Hungary the simple justice she demanded.

Five minutes would cover her actual acting for the day; and having stood about for nearly six hours she walks back home to her room.

She criticized Marlowe's acting, and complained that cold food gave her indigestion.

CLIVE, Mrs., Johnson describes her acting, iv. 243; v. 126; and Walpole, H., iv.