No small parts...only small actors!!
William
Okay...so it's the second best oxymoron, next to 'Military
Intelligence'...
After having had the flu for the last week, I started to really think...
Do I really wanna die in this
Beer-drinkin'-rock-n-rollin'-foo-ball-watchin'-blue collar burgh???
HELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP!!!!!!!!
http://www.usaor.net/users/harpo
Mr. Birduh
Theatrically yours,
Trinity
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"Lucky Stiff" Auditions - GVSU
April 11 and 12
"Lucky Stiff" Auditions - Hillsdale
April 16 and 17
"Macbeth" Auditions - GVSU
April 17 and 18
"The Sound of Music" Auditions - Hillsdale
May 30, April 1
Dalila
no small actors...only small parts." ?
KM
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Ce n'est pourtant pas la voix
Qui me fait defaut, je crois;
Non, c'est la methode!
David Hatunen
Mr. Birduh <bi...@river.it.gvsu.edu> wrote:
>There are no small parts...only actors with small parts.
There are no small actors, only small parts.
-the Old Actor in "The Fantasticks"
>Theatrically yours,
>Trinity
>
>---------------------------------------------------------------
>"Lucky Stiff" Auditions - GVSU
> April 11 and 12
>
>"Lucky Stiff" Auditions - Hillsdale
> April 16 and 17
>
>"Macbeth" Auditions - GVSU
> April 17 and 18
>
>"The Sound of Music" Auditions - Hillsdale
> May 30, April 1
I guess we're suppsoed to guess what GVSU is and waht part of this
great nation it's in?
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:)
Warmly,
Adam
Alan Schweppe
> : >There are no small parts...only actors with small parts.
>
> : There are no small actors, only small parts.
>
> Only small paycheques?
Your paycheck isn't small...only your thinking.
--
Alan Schweppe
Coreward News Service
Dennis
actors who don't know what to do with them!"
roger traviss
: There are no small actors, only small parts.
Only small paycheques?
Cheers,
Roger Traviss
From rainy, Victoria, BC Canada
Cathy Spielberger Cassetta
>Or as one friend of mine once said, "There are no small parts, only
>actors who don't know what to do with them!"
Brilliant! Ain't it the truth?! This one is suitable for framing! Thanks for hitting the nail on the head so concisely and brilliantly.
Deborah Overes
>actors who don't know what to do with them!"
"So ... what's 'Romeo and Juliet' about?"
"Well, you see, there's this apothocary ...."
Sorry, couldn't resist. Great line from a great movie.
Kevin Stevens
Dalila <dal...@radix.net> wrote:
> Didn't the old player in THE FANTASTICKS get it right, then? "There are
> no small actors...only small parts." ?
>
If you ask me, no.
This little bromide is so over and misused, I can't stand it. Especially
after watching a director cast his inept girlfriend over and over and
using this line to try and make the other actresses feel small for
complaining.
I hate this cliche.
No one says, "There are no small bank jobs, just small tellers."
Or, "There are no small baseball players, just small balls."
Or, "There are no small songs, just small instruments."
Anyone care to continue? I'm having fun.
--
Exit, pursued by bear...
Beth Laske-Miller
>
> No one says, "There are no small bank jobs, just small tellers."
Most of the tellers at my bank ARE pretty small, I think you're onto
something!
Steven Weller
My favorite annecdotes along these lines come mostly from Peter
Ustinov (sp), long an opponent of the so-called 'method' acting
style. He recognized (rightly, I think) that there ARE small
parts; parts that just require someone to show up and say a word
or two, and that's it. While there was a long, drawn-out story
about telling a method actor about how he wanted him to deliver
his one, single line, 'as if you have a brother in Shropshire who
drinks port,' the best was probably the heart-felt exclamation to
an actor who was seriously overplaying the business of his small
role - "Don't just do something, STAND THERE!!!"
--
Life Continues, Despite
Evidence to the Contrary,
Steven
Clive Mitchell
Stevens <kste...@localNOSPAMnet.com> writes
>I hate this cliche.
>
>No one says, "There are no small bank jobs, just small tellers."
>
>
>Or, "There are no small songs, just small instruments."
>
>Anyone care to continue? I'm having fun.
>
OK
There are no small cross-postings, just long drawn out tedium.
Sorry, just kidding. :)
>--
>Exit, pursued by bear...
Oh dear, did he catch you? It serves you right for wearing leather and
hanging round gay bar's.
--
Clive Mitchell
http://www.emanator.demon.co.uk
Lighting animators and FX
Marco Luly
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Cathy Spielberger Cassetta ha scritto nel messaggio
<1mBA2.541$16....@news.indigo.ie>...
>Or as one friend of mine once said, "There are no small parts, only
>actors who don't know what to do with them!"
Brilliant! Ain't it the truth?! This one is suitable for framing! Thanks for
Gwen A Orel
William,
stop whining. Pittsburgh, unlike New York, is an excellent place
to begin a professional career. Whatever you appear in will be reviewed,
for one. I know-- I used to write for the PPG, and before that I lived
in New York which is simpy death to actors who are just starting out.
What makes you think your career will jump start elsewhere? Your life
might be more interesting in a big city, but I doubt your career would
be better. I had opportunities in Pittsburgh (I'm now in Prague working on
my dissertation) I simply would not have had in a bigger city.
Gwen
--
"Live as one already dead." --Japanese saying
If one tells the truth one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.
--Oscar Wilde