Word: actorisms
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...CRIMSON: As an actor do you have any defined goals that you try to strive...
...forgive me. You have no idea what I’m talking about, do you? I mean, how could you? You weren’t a student actor in Oak Park, Ill., during the mid-to-late-1990s, after all. Well, Frances is an institution in my hometown of Oak Park, a sort of female version of Corky St. Clair from “Waiting for Guffman...
...actress with a loud voice who never quite made it anywhere on Broadway and settled into a life of teaching theater to small-town bumpkins like me. But in the land of the blind, the one-eyed brassy broad is queen, I suppose, because we naïve little actor-types just worshipped her. Part of Frances’s mystique was her past contact with a special subset of actors to which Lithgow, this year’s Harvard Commencement speaker, belongs...
...overcome by the jitters, but I attempt another query. “Why do you think you were selected as the first professional artist in decades, and the first actor in history, to speak at Commencement?” He pauses. I hold my breath and wait for his answer, fearing that I’ve just asked another stupid question...
...What you do as an actor,” he says at one point, in the trance-like tone of voice that actors can’t help but adopt when talking about their craft, “even the very best of it, even in films, is over immediately. I can name ten things I did in the 1970s, and I was really proud of them, but you know what?” He pauses and laughs. “I bet you haven’t heard of a single one of them...