Fucking everyone in NYC is an "actor"

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I'm highly saddened by you OP; I'm neither an actor nor a performer, and I only know about 20 or so aspiring ones, those of who, are by an by, in the art of calling each other pretentious hack; Which alot of people, such as you and I, may be apt to also call them.

So no, NY isn't full of actors- what it is full of however, are officious little pretentious twats. And yes, I am probably one of them.
 
I'd love to see a poll with the answers to "Do you have a headshot on you?" when asked to random young 20-somethings (waiters, baristas, bartenders, etc) in New York and LA.
 
Nix said:
I'm highly saddened by you OP; I'm neither an actor nor a performer, and I only know about 20 or so aspiring ones, those of who, are by an by, in the art of calling each other pretentious hack; Which alot of people, such as you and I, may be apt to also call them.

So no, NY isn't full of actors- what it is full of however, are officious little pretentious twats. And yes, I am probably one of them.
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oh my god what a sentence
 
golem said:
Hahah.. I have friends on IMDB.
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(shrug) I'm on IMDB. Still a very minor step in the path of an actor, though. It's like...

Random bullshit -> IMDB -> SAG/AFTRA card -> Agent -> Guest Starring roles -> Manager -> Recurring role -> better agent -> series regular/smaller movie roles -> better agent -> $$$$$

In varying order. You have to very hot, very connected, or very lucky to get far down that path. Talent, sadly, has very little to do with it.
 
NoRéN said:
Saying you're an actor is the cool way of saying you are unemployed.

kidding
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Well, it's true. Not even I will deny that.

But hey, I love it, and it's what I want to do with my life. Graduated summa cum laude with two degrees in finance and economics and couldn't give a shit about either, to be honest.
 
heh this attention whore girl I know has listed actor as a job on facebook, even tho she's only done a a few crappy low budget things for free.
 
The competition to be an artist is even more fierce in NYC...One of my better friends is a highly renowned artist that has done showns in Berlin and Paris, yet he struggled to make it in NYC.
 
MetatronM said:
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.)
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Everything you write I read in Luffy's voice. (Not English)
 
shagg_187 said:
Promoters are definitely the worse, At times even worse than "Entrepreneur".
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Everyone wants to be somebody. The under 30 generations have an over-inflated sense of entitlement I guess.
 
B!TCH said:
Everyone wants to be somebody. The under 30 generations have an over-inflated sense of entitlement I guess.
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The Hollywood mentality has expanded. Borders removed. The ideology is no longer local flavor.

I have found nothing good to come of it.
 
The best was when I lived in LA and met with a fellow recent college grad. I asked him what he wanted to do out here (I went out to write after graduating from Boston U, left the shithole two years later and started my own business on the east coast) and he replied:

"I dont know, maybe act, or write, or join a band..."

I replied:

"So like, the three hardest artistic professions? Nice."
 
Feep said:
(shrug) I'm on IMDB. Still a very minor step in the path of an actor, though. It's like...

Random bullshit -> IMDB -> SAG/AFTRA card -> Agent -> Guest Starring roles -> Manager -> Recurring role -> better agent -> series regular/smaller movie roles -> better agent -> $$$$$

In varying order. You have to very hot, very connected, or very lucky to get far down that path. Talent, sadly, has very little to do with it.
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And it seems like *everyone* auditioned for a huge role and JUST missed it... But the casting directors loved them. Really.
 
MrOogieBoogie said:
Well, it's true. Not even I will deny that.

But hey, I love it, and it's what I want to do with my life. Graduated summa cum laude with two degrees in finance and economics and couldn't give a shit about either, to be honest.
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Didn't know you were an actor. I only know one guy who's an actor, has a degree too. Loves the business and hes happy so that's more than most can say about their jobs.
 
B!TCH said:
Everyone wants to be somebody. The under 30 generations have an over-inflated sense of entitlement I guess.
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And the over 30 generation likes to yell at clouds. Wanting to be somebody doesn't = sense of entitlement. You sound mad that you never tried to go for whatever dreams you wanted.
 
I live in NYC, when people tell me that they're actors, I always ask "Oh really? Awesome, what restaurant do you work out of?"
 
at the Law office that i work at I know

Two Secretaries are actresses ( Broadway plays, True Blood, the Onion things like that)
friend in HR who is a fight coreagrapher and writer/director, done lots of high profile shows.
a paralegal who is/was? in Boardwalk Empire.
receptionist who is on tour right now.
another receptionist is a screenwriter
a couple of people in document production who are screenwriters/artists/are in a band (like three or four of them)


even I did some story boards for a guy for a small film (it fell through though)

even my mother might be an actor for all I know.
 
TeethMummy said:
I live in NYC, when people tell me that they're actors, I always ask "Oh really? Awesome, what restaurant do you work out of?"
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Do you, really?

And do you say it in a douche tone?

I doubt it, bro.
 
Angry Fork said:
And the over 30 generation likes to yell at clouds. Wanting to be somebody doesn't = sense of entitlement. You sound mad that you never tried to go for whatever dreams you wanted.
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I ain't even mad, bro. Just pointing out the obvious. I've got a long way to go before 30.
 
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