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[MrOogieBoogie]

I imagine it's even worse in Los Angeles.

I myself have done some acting work in the past but for the past couple years I've been studying and learning the Meisner technique. So yes, I guess I'm one of those NYC "actors." And I won't lie, it sucks how much people scoff at you or your work when you tell them what your aspirations are because seemingly every bartender and waiter/waitress in the city is aspiring to the same thing. The market is just so over-saturated.

 

[jon bones]

I've met 1 aspiring actor in all my years in NYC.

I meet like 30 new ones whenever I go to LA.

 

[Entropia]

So if I fuck everyone in New York it's called an "actor"?

 

[blame space]

does anyone want to read my screenplay

 

[MrOogieBoogie]

So if I fuck everyone in New York it's called an "actor"?

Don't be silly, goddammit.

DON'T BE SILLY.

 

[SolKane]

does anyone want to read my screenplay

Only if you wrote it in Starbucks on your macbook.

 

[Net_Wrecker]

And everyone else is a tourist.

DA HELL OUT THE WAY NO I'M NOT WAITING FOR YOU TO TAKE A PICTURE

 

[lightless_shado]

does anyone want to read my screenplay

post it. I promise I won't steal it

and what do you have against question marks what's your problem man

 

[Joe Shlabotnik]

Well now that Law & Order is off the air, there are probably about fifteen thousand people in the city who just lost the thinnest excuse for calling themselves actors.

 

[MetatronM]

I've met 1 aspiring actor in all my years in NYC.

I've had the doorman of my building email me headshots to try and get us to use him as an actor before. Was pretty weird, really.

 

[G-Fex]

New York is a terrible place

 

[Speevy]

So if I fuck everyone in New York it's called an "actor"?

Nah that's what you call casting.

 

[MrOogieBoogie]

Well now that Law & Order is off the air, there are probably about fifteen thousand people in the city who just lost the thinnest excuse for calling themselves actors.

So fucking true. lmao

 

[Stinkles]

Actors are SUCH bad waiters. But not as incompetent and stunningly stupid as models. Getting food in the fashion District is an exercise in coddling retards.

 

[SolKane]

Isn't Philly the new NYC, try your luck there?

 

[lightless_shado]

New York is a terrible place

You know that's a lie.

 

[MrOogieBoogie]

I've had the doorman of my building email me headshots to try and get us to use him as an actor before. Was pretty weird, really.

Are you a casting agent?

 

[G-Fex]

You know that's a lie.

Awful

 

[MetatronM]

Are you a casting agent?

No.

I am the office coordinator at a production company, though, so he basically just knew that I'm in some way connected to the film industry, so it's not like it was a completely blind shot. Still not like I could do anything for him.

 

[MrOogieBoogie]

No.

Well, what do you? I'm just curious. Promise you I won't email you headshots.








Maybe.

 

[Lionheart1337]

Nah that's just certain areas in Manhattan I think.

 

[Snowman Prophet of Doom]

And in a few years, I'll be one of the ones in Chicago or LA or someplace like that. Shit sucks, man.

 

[Drkirby]

post it. I promise I won't steal it

and what do you have against question marks what's your problem man

We can worry about question marks as soon as we can convince him to capitalize words.

 

[victreeb3l]

i think ive met more aspiring models than actors here. every girl with instagram believes shes a model

more are wannabe writers imo

 

[effzee]

I have been NYC for the past 15 years I have never met anyone that is an actor or inspiring to be.

 

[scorcho]

in all my time here i've only had two friends who were actors, and one had to move out to LA in order to get better roles.

now if you want to talk about the number of musicians...

 

[Angry Fork]

I've thought about it to be honest, but the fact that I'm not that interested in it + the extreme over saturation I'm not actively pursuing it. I'm more interested in writing/directing stuff, and if it so happens in the future I meet some people that are making their own film and I think I'd be okay for a part I'd ask them about it.

I'm not interested enough to do headshots or market myself though. You can't hate on people who do though, there are tons of famous actors that made it and were doing bartender work, waitressing etc. If they can make it then you never know. These days though I'd wager 15-25% of the equation for success comes from talent, the other 75% is who you know, the connections and branching out you can do, how you market yourself and so on.

The people who get work are the ones that are going to be out there every day talking to new people, going to all auditions, training every day etc. it's real tough I have respect for people who seriously are trying to make it, ones who care about their craft and are willing to give up at least a decade of their life pursuing that dream.

 

[brucewaynegretzky]

So become a headshot photographer....

 

[Barrage]

And in a few years, I'll be one of the ones in Chicago or LA or someplace like that. Shit sucks, man.

Exactly.

A friend of mine said he was moving to Toronto to work a dead-end job, and be dirt-poor in order to pursue stand-up comedy full-time.

I've never been more jealous.

 

[MrOogieBoogie]

Nah that's just certain areas in Manhattan I think.

Bro, you haven't heard? Manhattan = NYC.

Who cares about the other boroughs? lololol

 

[jon bones]

New York is a terrible place

it's one of the greatest cities in the world and - in many ways - it is what you make of it. if it's terrible to you it's only because you lack the creativity or gumption to experience it in a way that you would love.

Bro, you haven't heard? Manhattan = NYC.

Who cares about the other boroughs? lololol

brooklyn crushes manhattan

 

[Guevara]

No, everyone in NYC is a writer.

 

[Lionheart1337]

Bro, you haven't heard? Manhattan = NYC.

Who cares about the other boroughs? lololol

Typical yuppie garbage.

 

[mr2xxx]

At least there is the porn industry as a fallback.

 

[G-Fex]

it's one of the greatest cities in the world and - in many ways - it is what you make of it. if it's terrible to you it's only because you lack the creativity or gumption to experience it in a way that you would love.



brooklyn crushes manhattan

Pfft

 

[MrOogieBoogie]

Typical yuppie garbage.

I know. I grew up in Brooklyn. And real Brooklyn... not Williamsburg.

 

[Snowman Prophet of Doom]

Exactly.

A friend of mine said he was moving to Toronto to work a dead-end job, and be dirt-poor in order to pursue stand-up comedy full-time.

I've never been more jealous.

Oh, I'm VERY excited for it, but it's also one of the most terrifying things that I can imagine. I mean, not having any money or free time, probably for several years? Holy shit is that a terrible idea unless you feel like you absolutely HAVE to do it (which I, unfortunately, do). I'm also going to be pursuing writing and directing as it comes, so hopefully I can cast my net wide enough.

 

[scorcho]

I know. I grew up in Brooklyn. And real Brooklyn... not Williamsburg.

you mean Park Slope?

 

[MrOogieBoogie]

No, everyone in NYC is a writer.

Interesting.

How would you guys rank 'em from most prominent to least prominent:

Writers
Musicians
Actors
Models

 

[Deadly Cyclone]

Only if you wrote it in Starbucks on your macbook.

Shhh! Whitta does this!

 

[MrOogieBoogie]

you mean Park Slope?

This guy. Obviously Bushwick.

 

[Eight Diagram Bat Fighter]

If you're not getting jobs, it's because you're not aspiring hard enough.

 

[commish]

I know. I grew up in Brooklyn. And real Brooklyn... not Williamsburg.

Oh lawdy.

 

[MetatronM]

Well, what do you? I'm just curious. Promise you I won't email you headshots.








Maybe.

See the edit earlier.


Oh, my old roommate also is a bartender who was an actor in a previous life, frequently took roles as an extra, and likes to imagine he'll be a famous food/liquor industry personality someday. He also worked with someone who was a waitress who was particularly delusional, used a stage name even for waitressing, created a treatment for a TV show starring herself, and likes to inform everybody that she is going to be a star someday.

And then there was another girl who used to live in our building who fancied herself a writer and actor and would star in a web series that her roommate was doing, who ALSO fancied herself an actor (we got dragged to one of her plays down in SoHo one time).

(One of my current roommates is a personal trainer who bartends and wants to be a model. I'm not sure how I find these people. She's way hot and Belorussian, though, so I can't complain.)

 

[joelseph]

New York is a terrible place

I like you in this thread

 

[scorcho]

Interesting.

How would you guys rank 'em from most prominent to least prominent:

Writers
Musicians
Actors
Models

Musician
Writers
Actors SLASH Models

 

[jon bones]

Interesting.

How would you guys rank 'em from most prominent to least prominent:

Writers
Musicians
Actors
Models

i think it's about what circles you find yourself in too

in BK i would always meet graphic designers, while dating a fashionista i always met "buyers/sellers" and aspiring designers and these days i'm always meeting traders

 

[xxracerxx]

Portland is starting to have alot of acting jobs available (at least on the extras side).

 

[Feep]

Are you kidding? Come to Los Angeles, son. Then you can bitch.

But of course, you're bitching about...yourself...so I don't really know what your angle is. Are you mad because you think you did it before it was cool?

 

[joelseph]

Interesting.

How would you guys rank 'em from most prominent to least prominent:

Writers
Musicians
Actors
Models

Forgetting the big ones

DJ
Promoter