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Glossary entry

français term or phrase:

Être acteur de sa vie

anglais translation:

Do things my way

Added to glossary by Kimberly De Haan
Oct 8, 2010 09:43
13 yrs ago
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français term

Être acteur de sa vie

français vers anglais Art / Littérature Général / conversation / salutations / correspondance Saying
This is from one of those little focusses on a person where they ask for your favourite colour, animal, etc. At the end, they ask this person what her motto is, and she replies "Être actrice de ma vie".

I can't think of what the equivalent maxim might be in English. Can anyone help?
Proposed translations (anglais)
4 +1 Do things my way
3 +3 to live life to the full
4 +2 To be the author of my own life
4 +1 to live my own life
3 +1 feel in control of my life
4 Your life is in your hands
4 be in charge of my own life
3 +1 be master of my own life
4 I want to be the theme of my life/my life's theme
4 To call the shots
3 to live one's life as one wants
3 to write the script for my own life

Proposed translations

+1
32 minutes
Selected

Do things my way

Cf Frank Sinatra. Avoid Cloclo and Comme d'habitude.
Peer comment(s):
agree AllegroTrans : Sinatra has it - dix points
10 jours
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Though there were lots of good suggestions, I like "I did it my way" best. Very subjective in this case. Thanks to everyone"
4 minutes

to live one's life as one wants

This person will try not to let anything or anyone interfere with her deepest wishes
Peer comment(s):
neutral Sheila Wilson : Sorry, but that doesn't sound at all natural. In general, "one" would be avoided unless one wants to speak like the Queen :-)
13 minutes
neutral philgoddard : One agrees with Sheila.
3 heures
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+3
7 minutes

to live life to the full

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Note added at 23 mins (2010-10-08 10:06:46 GMT)
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As an alternative: to take life into one's own hands
Peer comment(s):
agree Sheila Wilson
10 minutes
Thanks Sheila
agree Carol Gullidge : your second suggestion: to take life into one's own hands
22 minutes
Many thanks Carol
agree Lisa Miles
2 heures
Thanks Lisamiles
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+1
27 minutes

feel in control of my life

I would think that it is more wishing to take control, or 'being in charge of my life'.
There are plenty of Ghits for both terms.
Peer comment(s):
agree Bourth (X) : Be in control of my destiny (isn't that a song, or am I thinking of "I Did It My Way"?)
3 minutes
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34 minutes

Your life is in your hands

"Acteur" is the operative word. It's important to express being "in charge" of ones destiny etc.
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+2
35 minutes

To be the author of my own life

Just another option, which smacks a bit of self-help manuals I know, but it's certainly said. Also 'author of my own destiny'
Peer comment(s):
agree HelenG : This is the sense of it imo. 'To be in control of my own destiny' as you suggest below is how I really interpret it.
26 minutes
thanks, Helen
agree Maia Tabet : Yes, it smacks of self-help manuels, but so does etre acteur de ma vie! It's perfect, I think.
14 heures
thank you very much, Maia
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+1
37 minutes
français term (edited): Être acteur de ma vie

to live my own life

master of one's own destiny

live life on my own terms

run my own life

Live life my way , etc.

a few of the many g-hits for suggestion no/ 1:

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Peer comment(s):
agree Verginia Ophof : Yes !! act out my own life
7 heures
many thanks Verginia :)
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1 heure

to write the script for my own life

Une autre possibilité peut-être
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2 heures

be in charge of my own life

another possibility
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+1
2 heures

be master of my own life

direct my own life
be in control of my own life
Peer comment(s):
agree Heidi Stone-Schaller
44 minutes
Thanks!
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4 heures

I want to be the theme of my life/my life's theme

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14 heures

To call the shots

To be "acteur de sa vie" is to contril one's life, in other words, to call the shots.

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