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11-05-2006, 05:06 AM
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you know what i hate, it has nothing to do with this thread but you just reminded me of it actress. whenever i tell someone about something i am in, series or a film or whatever, they reply with one or more of the following comments.... "oh are you an extra?" "i knew someone who did film work, they were an extra too" "do you see you much in it?" "how much did you get paid?" <Answer> "oh i could do that!" "thats great, ill be freezeframing the croud scenes to spot you" gosh its so offensive,  its as if they dont think i can acheive anything. im used to it now. but when i first starte dout it really shattered my confidence.  | ||
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11-05-2006, 07:18 AM
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That's funny! I heard that a lot, too! When I was 19 and planning to move to Los Angeles to "become an actor", I got tons and tons of sarcastic responses, as if I was an idiot, or it was a pipe dream....probably because they were too chicken **** to move out of the small town. That's my guess. | ||
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11-05-2006, 08:33 AM
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When idiots do that to you.. it's just their jealousy showing through... You may be an extra.. but they are nothings... Their crap words are just them in awe of you, not having a clue how to send a compliment.. or they are bouncing themselves off the "mirror", off of someone who has found the success route... You can say to them, "All that was all for you.. You are telling me about yourself, if you were where I am.. How much would you have made if you could ever get a job as an extra.. If you want freeze-frame, by a still camera.. I'm here now, feast your eyes on me.. it's too good to be true, but I'm here, I'm here.. tumble to the ground and roll in awe... All the great actors started doing in ads and as extras... When I break through the ice, You'll find me somewhere at one of my debuts, where you can stand in cue to get one of my autographed pix... As far as money figures go, that's trade secrets.. try it yourself, and you tell me... Or you could bash them on the head with a short length of 2 by 4... Or do like some of the grouchier actors do.. like Mr Penn, try to shove their cameras down their throats... Remove that chip off your shoulders... They aren't trying to hurt your feelings... What they're saying to you, is all they can think of saying to one who has made it, to one who has broken through the thick ice, to one who is on the first rung on their way into success... All Actors get that kind of mindless-crap tossed at them, by those who haven't got a clue... Those sillies are just children in big kid's bodies... You are their hero, but they don't have the balls to make that clear... Treat them with some honest respect... Play it like you are at your debut, and they are your fans... cuz they ARE your fans now... That's the kinds of fans an extra gets.. It goes with the territory... As a fullblown Actor you'll suddenly have a million of them hounding you.. get used to it.. get over yourself... Save you grumpiness and blind aggressions for the scammers, the door to door salesmen, and the door to door bible-thumpers... Learn to radiate bubbly happiness... Build your actor's aura as something that makes the general public want to love and embrace you... Start work on being a nice gentle person... So what if they are interested in your job... They are trying to tell you they are envious, and they love you... Or that they want to be your friend, because you are now important, and to be your friend makes them feel important too... Thing is, most people really don't know what to say to an actor... They come across like they want to instantly trade place with you... The ones you really want, are the ones who you can be yourself around... The ones you want are those with whom you can joke and laugh with, and go to a restaurant with, and hug and cuddle with.. without them being jealous of you, or trying to bleed you for something.. You want to be near the ones who are proud of you, and are proud to be your friends and acquaintances... Take care in who you are sluffing off, because they might really be your only true friends, and your future friends... You know it took a hell of a lot of effort to get to where you are, and they haven't got a clue what you had to push yourself through to get to where you are.. So what... You don't need to tell them all you went through.. it would bore them bigtime, and they would fall asleep... They couldn't do the work.. they hate work, and don't know how to work to a goal... Just you know that it's gonna take a lot to get to where you want to be... Just treat people nice, on your way up.. cuz you're gonna need them on your way down... Get rid of those snotty "chips on shoulders" airs.. they don't do any good for you... An actor is not made of snot.. Actors are built of love and life... Last edited by CosmicD : 11-05-2006 at 08:44 AM. | ||
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11-05-2006, 09:34 AM
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That's just their jealousy showing through.. It's really all they've got... Actually it's them telling you that they can't do anything, and wondering if you can, in them trying to lower you so they can feel comfortable around someone who is great compared to them... Learn to read people... Learn to read what's hiding behind their lines... Essentially they are just acting too.. They are acting as if they are alive, and as if they really know something... In you learning acting, essentially you are reverse engineering life's lines... You are learning what's behind the lines... You are gonna find a lot of people trying to pull you down so they will feel comfy around you... It's just the way people are... The big thing is, I'm proud of you... You are worth me spending hours and hours on, in trying my best to steer you in along an easier route toward your end goals... You are my Heros... | ||
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11-05-2006, 10:59 AM
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i know just what you mean. it is jelousy, and i think regret, cos most of them regret that they never did what they wanted with their lives oh theres one funny story one of my freinds (who i thought understood me), when she found out about one of my tv appearances was all excited at first and i thought "wow, at last" but then she started saying, you have to wave at the camera when it goes past you so i can see which one is you" lol i was like "yeh i really can just in between saying my lines just look at the camera and wave, very proffessional" again, i think she assumed i was in the back of a two second croud scene. pah! lol | ||
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11-05-2006, 11:17 AM
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Your "Pah!".. tells me you've got a lot of unbridled aggressive power in you... You could probably make a bully cry just with words... You need that stuff to be an strong actor... Study the guy who acted as the number two bad guy in Croc Dundee one... Find if he wrote a biography... If you ever get the chance to ask him a question, ask him to detail all what is hiding behind his "Pah"... Take all what's behind that "pah", and Sterrretch it out into packets of emotion and emotions, to give you a good look at a tiny part of yourself in the "cosmic mirror"... and write every word you think... and add it to your prime documents... You don't need anybody to tell you how great you are... Remember in that football movie with superman being the ball club's waterboy and gofor... All what is important, is that you know who and what you are... So what if the neighbor's dog thinks you are or aren't great... it means nothing... it's no more important than a leaf spinning to the ground in Fall... Being an extra for 60-seconds is a big thing, when you take into consideration how much it took to get there.. and now the uphill climb is a lot easier.. cuz now you've got a real resume... Last edited by CosmicD : 11-05-2006 at 11:31 AM. | ||
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11-06-2006, 09:47 AM
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Some things that pull-up a grumpy negative in me... Grrrrr!!! I don't like seeing "i" in a post, when it should be an "I"... It gives me the feel that someone is half-buried in the ground, head first... It gives me a "constipated" sense of that person... That shouldn't be coming from you princesses and princes of our Species... You are our leaders to be... Act like it!.. Be it... And while you're doing it.. be gentle & kind to the "mindless peasants"... They look up to you... Most of them can't see any higher than you... To them actors and doctors are "god"... Actors and doctors are my playmates... Two: We've all got spellcheck in our PC's.. let's use it, before posting... If your browser doesn't quick link you to a spellcheck, then download the freebie Seamonkey 1.1 browser.. and checkout the Window tab, and click on Composer, and paste your post into it, and click the Spell tab... Then copy, and paste into the forum's post form... And if the spellcheck doesn't have a word, then got to the File tab, and click New, Navigator Window, and surf that word on Google... Then paste the corrected word into your post... Then you stuff is easy to read, and the reader gets a clear sense of what you are saying, or trying to say... Then you get clear responses.. because the reader gets a clear picture... Plus.. you can now save your post on the desktop or in a file, from Composer... Also.. I noted that some forums will monitor your typing a post, and some goons will make ugly changes in your creation as you do it... Seamonkey has a little "disconnect icon" at the bottom right of the window... It gives you privacy while composing... And you can use the disconnect icon to click your PC off the Net, for when you take a break, and don't want to shut down your browser... There are a lot of super features in Seamonkey... ____________________ Why Seamonkey..? http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=2173248& (please do not add to that seamonkey thread.. kindly consider it Closed, given that our "lord of the moon" brother, should be left to have the last-word in that thread...) __________________ If you folks are experiencing troubles with your PC's, I have an ongoing thirty post thread that teaches the novice how to understand and work with a PC... Would this forum like to include a computer help forum?.. ____________________ | ||
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11-06-2006, 01:27 PM
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oh my god! how rude! the main reason you may find mistakes in my posts is not due to my spelling, but to the fact that i type too fast and fingers can slip. what kind of computer nerd copies and pastes his posts into a spell checker before posting them?! why is it worth it? its an internet message board for heavens sakes! not an english essay! and the i I i I difference is simple, i have a negative keyboard, its an advent. the keys are black! sometimes its not worth sitting up, turning the light over to find the caps key just for one letter in a message board. | ||
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