Sentences with phrase «other than an actor»

The animated Emoji Movie needed a voice for the icon «Poop», and that role went to none other than actor Patrick Stewart, who is best know know for the sophisticated roles of Professor Charles Xavier of The X-Men franchise and Captain Jean Luc Picard in Star Trek: Generations.

In fact, there doesn't seem to be anything in there other than an actor known for his quirks coasting on his now - familiar anachronistic persona.

The voice of the Jabberwocky in Tim Burton's 2010 adaptation of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland is voiced by none other than actor Christopher Lee.

Not exact matches

More than 1,200 veterans representing every branch of the military sent a letter to House and Senate leaders on February 12, saying that «strategic investments in the State Department and USAID will be essential if we are to solidify our hard - fought gains and prevent other bad actors from filling the void» around the world.

Who, other than financial executives, media moguls, some actors and politicians, and defense contractors lives or has assets that will deliver a cash flow like that?

On the other hand with the housing bubble, the distribution hit unsophisticated actors, who could not tolerate risk, and gave them signals the risk was lower than that, everybody who needs housing.

I have always loved R.H. Thomson as an actor (shout out to the other «Road to Avonlea» watchers who know him as Jasper Dale) but he can communicate more in a look than most actors in a whole monologue.

It turns out that when we let ourselves surrender to the «Time of the Season,» we are less like the animals and flowers of the field than a) like actors playing parts in some two - bit melodrama about low - class Others, or, b) like the starry - eyed Icaruses of the first verse seeking to take one another «to the sun» and «to promised lands.»

MacLeish's contribution, other than bringing the story into the 20th century, making a great contribution to the tiny, tiny pool of American poetic drama, and winning the 1959 Pulitzer with it, is quite a bit of additional commentary by his God and Satan characters, a pair of washed - up actors who observe the Job story being played on a stage, and occasionally take part in it.

He gives voice to the philosophical problem of evil perhaps more clearly and cogently than any other speaker or actor, any other philosopher or theologian, in the whole of world literature.

The actor's obviously older than Obama, so technically Obama looks like him not the other way around.

Improper public to private communication might seem trivial in an environment as open as bond markets but the truth is that private actors are poorly informed and, in more cases than expected, react to media reports rather than information from the Spanish government or other official sources.

As the authors of that paper put it: «Clumsy solutions are creative, flexible mixes of four ways of organizing, perceiving and justifying that satisfy the adherents to some ways of life more than other courses of actions, while leaving no actor worse off.

In other words, these behaviors were less for domestic show than they were for other international actors.

In March 2009, while Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, Miliband attended the UK premiere of climate change film The Age of Stupid, where he was ambushed by actor Pete Postlethwaite, who threatened to return his OBE and vote for any party other than Labour if the Kingsnorth coal - fired power station were to be given the go - ahead by the government.

In IR, National Interest is traditionally linked with what has been labeled by scholars as a billiard ball approach to foreign policy, in which the nation - state is defined and treated as a unitary actor, more important than the «cobweb» of national and transnational connections that others see to be important to an understanding of foreign policy.

The actor is best known for things other than his political advocacy, but he is no stranger in progressive Democratic circles.

Then came the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon game, created by college students, in which players must connect the actor to another actor by no more than six other people.

A few years ago he discovered that the average Academy Award winner lives four years longer than other actors and that patients admitted to a hospital over the weekend are 28 percent more likely to die than those admitted on weekdays.

«Checking for disease among the «Kevin Bacons» is an appealing concept,» Dr. Polgreen says, referring to the actor who is famously connected to other stars through fewer than six degrees of separation.

Last week Roger and I went to see The Amazing Spider Man II and I loved it... I love the actors and the story line so much more than the other Spider Man movies!

«Some are better actors than others,» Williams admits.

Hopper's choice to have the actors singing during filming, rather than lip - synching to a pre-recorded soundtrack, gives such impact to the performances — even with his overuse of certain other filming choices — creates such a complete world that even with its flaws, Les Miz had me in the palm of its metaphoric hand throughout.

None of the supporting performances are bad, per se, it's just there isn't much for the other actors to do (which could be a byproduct of the Disaster Artist book more than anything else).

Other TV shows followed, including guest starring roles on «Hill StreetWell known for his seamless and varied characterizations, Oscar nominated actor David Paymer has starred or co-starred in more than 40 motion pictures, several television movies and countless television series.

Once there was a film historian who opined that Wallace Ford was in more movies than any other character actor of his prominence.

Very Bad Things features a pretty terrific cast; while it features no real «big time» stars other than Cameron Diaz - who only achieved that status upon the release of Mary, which happened after this film was already done - it offers a very solid list of quality actors.

There are few, if any, young actors other than her who could play the type of strong, capable, insightful heroine embodied by Katniss.

The performances all around are great, and the cast does an admirable job portraying actors and other characters that The Room aficionados are more than familiar with at this point.

There are few actors like him and although some of his choices work better than others, this is one that I'm sure he'd rather forget.

He nails the time period, the locations are perfect, the young actors are amazing (not over or underplaying anything), the cadence is on the money, and the adults are much more genuine and sincere than they have been in other W.A. films.

He's a devotee of unadorned camerawork and semi-improvised dialogue — but some actors are better at improv than others.

As Katja, a German woman whose bespectacled little son and Turkish husband are blown up by terrorists in Fatih Akin's In the Fade, Diane Kruger is in nearly every shot, and her wide, open face with its hollow eyes says more in silence than other actors do in lengthy perorations.

The conflict might be heavy - handed without Phoenix's face — his irresolution somehow more powerful than other actors» resolve.

Even as characters are tweaked and actors bring a slightly different energy than his other movies, The Best of Me is still the same mushy Nicholas Sparks adaptation with drama so overwrought audience members can't help but laugh — at least until they're sniffling during the closing credits.

The movie is both a star vehicle and an ensemble piece; the other actors revolve around Newman yet give off more than just his reflected light.

Though the metaphysical overtones of the screenplay are sometimes awkwardly handled and Eastwood's direction of actors (other than himself) is occasionally uncertain, this was one of the better American films of 1985.

With the possible exceptions of fellow character players Fritz Feld and Gino Corrado, German - born actor Sig Arno played more waiters and maitre d's than any other film actor.

No other reason than that, not to mention the fact that I love all of the actors in this film.

If you want nothing more than to watch zombies get mowed down in elaborate ways while a bunch of actors shout at each other, Wyrmwood: Road Of The Dead certainly offers that.

Humphrey Bogart (as Rigby's partner) plays a larger role than the other noir - era actors.

Absolutely no effort is shown in any one scene other than from the actors, none of which deserve to have their names associated with a movie of this nature.

There were a lot of cameos in the movie of actors that played in both the Hobbit and Lord of the RIngs movies, but they come and go and really add nothing to the story other than to give the Tolkien fanboys out there nerd boners and merge the two franchises together.

He has difficult behavior on the set, apart from that he is asking to be paid more than the other cast and main actor Robert Downey Jr..

(I feel about Pollack the opposite of how I feel about Sean Penn: the former is a better actor than a director, and with the latter it's the other way around.

Though this neo-Western may sound like every other Statham vehicle on the surface, «Homefront» plays more like a gritty thriller than one of the actor's typical action movies.

Yet unlike so many of the director's previous cinematic puzzle games, Redbelt cares far less about tricking its audience than about plumbing its protagonist's psyche in a way both viscerally exciting and intensely analytical, a nifty trick that's aided by a host of uniformly sturdy but tonally divergent supporting actors (dainty Emily Mortimer, chilly Rebecca Pidgeon, hammy Rodrigo Santoro, goofy Tim Allen) who don't, at first glance, seem well - suited to coexist with each other.

i only wish those thousands went to work on movies of more substance than fighting robots... and you don't have to apologize to me, i can in fact compare «Real Steel» to «The Fast and the Frivolous» films because in essence they are one - in - the - same, simply just the flavor of the week kind of flicks that have no real pull behind them other than big name actors, CGI and a promise of action.

There are a lot of good actors that pop up in small roles (including Helena Bonham Carter as a tough prostitute with a wooden leg that packs a punch and Barry Pepper as a crooked Army captain), but many of them don't seem to serve much purpose other than to overcomplicate things.

Rather than coming off naturalistic, the actors sound out of sync with each other.