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'ACTING' in a movie sentence | examples for 'ACTING' from movies

Joey: Oh yeah, and she’s really nice too! She taught me about y’know, how to work with the cameras and smell-the-fart acting.

"Friends", season 7, episode 24

Monica: Oh, look! Acting for Beginners! Want to feel good about yourself?

"Friends", season 8, episode 21

Joey: Yeah! Yeah! I mean I’m sorry, I wish I can take everybody, but y’know Chandler always supported my career. He’s paid for acting classes and head shots and stuff and well this will be my way of paying you back.

"Friends", season 8, episode 22

Joey: Oh.. I don't know why this is so hard for me. you know.. I mean lying is basically just acting and I am a terrfic actor.

"Friends", season 9, episode 8

Chandler: Well uh, there was acting classes, stage combat classes, tap classes…

"Friends", season 8, episode 22

Monica: Is that why he's acting so weird...? He's jealous...? Oh my God, that is crazy. It's not like I'm attracted to Geoffrey...

"Friends", season 9, episode 6

(She runs to the bathroom, while Chandler starts acting like a chicken in front of Emma. Emma is silent, however.)

"Friends", season 9, episode 14

Molly: No, where did you study acting?

"Friends", season 9, episode 12

Joey: Molly ... people don't study acting ...

"Friends", season 9, episode 12

Joey: So you see, Molly, what people don't understand is that acting is a discipline. It takes a lot of hard work.

"Friends", season 9, episode 12

Rachel: Okay. (pause).(acting) Hello Drake, I'm surprised to see you here.

"Friends", season 9, episode 19

Chandler: What are you, stop naming dwarves! (on phone) Hello, Janice. Hi, I'm so glad that you called, I know I've been acting a really weird lately. And, it's just because I'm crazy about you, and I just got...stupid, and, and scared, and....stupid a couple of more times. I'm sorry. (listens) Really?! (listens) Really?!

"Friends", season 3, episode 4

(The chain breaks loose from the wall, and because Joey was pushing with all his might, he propells into the kitchen, towards the table with all the food. This table has wheels underneath it, and when Joey falls on this table, he rides into the living room, with all the food falling off, until finally Joey also falls off... Joey gets up quickly, a bit agitated, and acting as nothing happened. He is covered in food stains.)

"Friends", season 10, episode 8

Mike: No more so than acting.

"Friends", season 10, episode 12

Joey: (acting sad) NO! I waited a long time, I can't wait anymore... (and closes the door behind him)

"Friends", season 10, episode 7

(It’s a really good-looking man, Joshua, that Rachel has an instant crush on. Well actually it’s Tate Donovan, so it’s not like she’s really testing her acting skills.)

"Friends", season 4, episode 13

Joey: Oh, I'd love too, but I got acting class. But y'know what? I guess I can blow that off, (In a sexy voice) for you.

"Friends", season 5, episode 16

Phoebe: Yeah, well I had to learn, I was staying at the Y and some off the young men weren’t acting Christian enough.

"Friends", season 3, episode 7

Joey: See, I actually can pour milk, but I got you believing that I couldn’t. Now, see, that’s acting.

"Friends", season 3, episode 19

The Acting Teacher: All right, let’s start with some basics. Can anybody tell me what the difference between upstage and downstage is?

"Friends", season 8, episode 21

Chandler: So ah, Joey tells me you two met in acting class.

"Friends", season 4, episode 5

Joey: Okay, some tricks of the trade. Now, I’ve never been able to cry as an actor, so if I’m in a scene where I have to cry, I cut a hole in my pocket, take a pair of tweezers, and just start pulling. Or ah, or, let’s say I wanna convey that I’ve just done something evil. That would be the basic ‘I have a fishhook in my eyebrow and I like it’ (Does it by raising one eyebrow, and showing off the pretend fishhook.) Okay, let’s say I’ve just gotten bad news, well all I do there is try and divide 232 by 13. (looks all confused) And that’s how it’s done. Great soap opera acting tonight everybody, class dismissed.

"Friends", season 3, episode 7

[Scene: Monica and Rachel's. Ross is acting nervous]

"Friends", season 3, episode 2

JOEY: And, and just so you know, if you wanted to expand this scene like, like have the cab crash or somethin', I could attend to the victims 'cause I have a background in medical acting.

"Friends", season 2, episode 19

JOEY: Yeah, and she's really nice too. She taught me all about how to work the cameras, and smell-the-fart acting.

"Friends", season 2, episode 11

Phoebe: Okay, you guys. You guys I think I know what’s going on here. Okay, you guys… STOP!! (They stop.) I know that, I know that you’re acting mad because you think that it’ll make it easier to leave. But deep down you’re still really sad. Deep-deep down.

"Friends", season 6, episode 6

Phoebe: Oh good! Okay. ‘Cause you were acting like you didn’t.

"Friends", season 3, episode 18

Joey: Okay, I know it sounds crazy, but I think it might work. Y’know? The only problem is, Carl’s acting is… (Does the international hand symbol for so-so.)

"Friends", season 6, episode 17

Joey: Yeah, yeah. It’s like my chance to give something back to the acting community.

"Friends", season 3, episode 7

Joey: Well, it’s not a part, no. I’m teaching acting for soap operas down at the Learning Extension.

"Friends", season 3, episode 7

Joey: Oh, nothing, no. It’s an acting exercise, I’m practising my fake laugh.

"Friends", season 3, episode 18

Kathy: Acting! Chandler, this is my job! I’m-I’m playing a part in a play! How can you not trust me?!

"Friends", season 4, episode 13

Chandler: Thank you! Today, my boss keep slapping my butt and he was acting like it was no big deal.

"Friends", season 3, episode 24

Joey: Just now, after acting class. At first I thought she was doing some kind of scene, that’s why I let people watch.

"Friends", season 4, episode 7

Monica: That's mine!! Now, would you both please start acting like adults? And get me my cough drops!

"Friends", season 4, episode 5

Rachel: This is a very critical time right now. If you feel yourself reaching for that phone, then you go shoe shopping, you get your butt in a bubble bath. You want her back you have to start acting aloof.

"Friends", season 3, episode 4

Ross: I don’t know whether he’s testing me, or just acting out, but my monkey is out of control. But, he keeps erasing the messages on my machine, "supposedly" by accident.

"Friends", season 1, episode 16

Joey: Oh and (Ross begins to open the door and Joey says some gibberish word to indicate to Ross that he’s not done yet. Ross closes the door again.) Okay, and uh if anyone needs help pretending to like it, I learned something in acting class, try uh, rubbing your stomach (Rubs his stomach) or uh, or saying “mmm” and uh, oh oh! And smiling (Smiles while pretending to stir a bowl), okay?

"Friends", season 6, episode 9

Chandler: Oh, so being a good friend means acting like a total jerk?

"Friends", season 5, episode 10

Joey: All right relax, look I'll pay you with the money from the acting job I am definitely gonna get thanks to you.

"Friends", season 5, episode 13

Chandler: Oh, come on! You've been acting strange all day!

"Friends", season 5, episode 16

Monica: Oh y'know what? If you're gonna be acting like this all night, I really, I don't even want to be around you.

"Friends", season 5, episode 23

Monica: That is so sweet. I know that I was acting a little crazy but umm, I feel the same way.

"Friends", season 5, episode 17

Joey: Felicity and I, we’re watching My Giant, and I was thinking, "I’m never gonna be as good an actor as that giant." Do you think I’m just wasting my life with this acting thing?

"Friends", season 5, episode 1

Joey: Yeah, I gotta go! I got an acting job. (Turns towards the door, pauses, and turns back.) Like you’d believe that. This sucks!

"Friends", season 6, episode 2

Mindy: Well, ever since we announced the engagement, he's been acting really weird, and then last night, he came home smelling like Chanel.

"Friends", season 1, episode 20

(They both sit down and Rachel pours them both some coffee. They’re acting like nothing’s happened and everyone is just staring at them.)

"Friends", season 6, episode 1

Joey: Good evening. I’m Mr. Tribbiani. And I will be teaching acting for soap operas. Now um, on my first day as (proudly) Dr. Drake Remoray on Days of Our Lives, (looks for a reaction from his students, and gets none.) I learned that one of the most important things in soap opera acting is reacting, this does not mean acting again, it means, you don’t have a line, but someone else just did. And it goes like this. (looks all intense for a moment and then gasps, the students cheer him) Thanks, thanks, a lot. Oh, by the way, before I forget to work in soap operas some of you will have to become much more attractive. All right, moving right along.

"Friends", season 3, episode 7

JOEY: Well, see when you're acting you need to think about stuff like that. My character, Joseph the processor guy, has two little girls, Ashley and Brittany. Ashley copies everything Brittany does.

"Friends", season 2, episode 23

Phoebe: (interrupting) No, I mean I was really acting my ass off.

"Friends", season 6, episode 20

[And with that we go into the save the budget portion of the show, which features flashbacks from previous episodes. The first set of auditions feature high lights or low lights of Joey’s acting career. The first flashback is from The One With The Lesbian Wedding.]

"Friends", season 6, episode 20

Paul: (acting manly to try and cover up his crying) Okay. Chandler, did your dad ever hug you?

"Friends", season 6, episode 23

Chandler: Yeah, I’m not gonna pay for those acting classes anymore.

"Friends", season 6, episode 9

Joey:  Yeah, and oh she's really nice too. She taught me all about how to work the cameras, and smell-the-fart acting.

"Friends", season 6, episode 20

(Dramatic music plays and Joey does a little ‘Smell-the-fart’ acting.)

"Friends", season 8, episode 5

Phoebe: She was acting, she was pretending like she hasn’t heard from him on years, but I found this picture on her fridge, and look (shows Monica)! Isn’t this what he would look like now?

"Friends", season 3, episode 25

Monica: Are you okay? You’ve been acting weird all afternoon.

"Friends", season 8, episode 16

Phoebe: Are you kidding? People acting like animals to music. Come on!

"Friends", season 8, episode 18