Overheard In New York

Archive for the ‘Actors’ Category

Harlot, 1995-2000: I Was a Team Player Skilled in Oral Communication with Customers

Acting student, performing a scene: You cheated on me! You harlot!
Acting professor: No, no! Now would you say ‘harlot?’ If someone called me a harlot I’d say ‘Oh thank you so much!’ You’d say you mother-fucking bitch, you whore, you slut! ‘Harlot’ sounds beautiful, I’d put it on my resume!

–Fordham University, Lincoln Center

Overheard by: team jeffrey

Behind the Laughter: Obscenities and Addiction

Balloon-Twisting clown: Ha ha! What are you, some kind of fucking gypsy?
Face painter dressed as gypsy: Do you want a fucking cigarette or what?

–Central Park Zoo

Overheard by: I quit, but that juggler looks like he could

It Wasn’t Work, It Was an Audition

Guy #1: You look really familiar to me; what do you do?
Guy #2: I’m an actor, poet, musician…
Guy #1: No…Did you ever work at Bloomingdale’s?
Guy #2: …Yes. –Astoria