Lexi Reiser > Recent Status Updates

“Awards are fickle. They taunt you with their existence, they promise acceptance and professional fulfillment, but they end up just moving on to someone else before you know it. In the end, the work is still the work, and the desire to keep getting to perform, to keep doing the thing that you love, will always be there regardless of the fullness of your trophy case.”

“I was and am incredibly proud of my role as Whizzer. I feel it’s the best work I have ever done.”

“Here is something I quickly discovered about ambition and achieving your dreams: Once you taste it, you want more.”

“[Barbara Walsh] intimated the hell out of me. I had seen [her] on the 1992 Tony Awards as Trina in Falsettos.” FALSETTOS MENTIONED !!!!!!

“[My boss], of course, was sympathetic about the possible abduction of my friend and said that missing work on Monday was not a problem. As I type this, I am still baffled as to how I got away with these things. I’ll bet my boss just thought I was deeply troubled and let these incidents slide.”

“So once again I rolled on the floor and humped the wall. I definitely threw that bottle again, even harder this time. When it was all over, Bernie looked at me and smiled.”

“If you are going to enter into a career in the arts, it’s important to know that the most common feeling you will feel, and I’m talking on a daily basis, is rejection. Even if you aren’t actively rejected that day, the feeling of lacking something, of losing out, is always just stuck on you”

“I had met an idol, she was dressed as a Star Trek character, and I was dressed as a twink hooker. I got to profess my love for her, and she said she liked my shirt while touching me”

“Steve’s combination of confidence and blind swagger made me feel certain he was not a gay person but rather just a straight actor who liked to be admired. I felt like we were seconds away from him showing me his dick and saying, “Do you like this? Because you can’t have it. But it’s nice, right?”

“I don’t know why my classmates thought I was having sex with these girls, but somehow
that became the rumor. I could tell it pleased my brother. I’m sure he was nervous for me walking into the testosterone-fueled zoo that was our high school, but now his little brother had the reputation of being a real slut. Lucky him and me!”

“Priests! Forty-year-olds! Sexual awakenings! Oh my! We’ve covered so much ground already. If it isn’t already clear to you, men have always been a source of confusion for me.”

“Samantha…had a manager! “He wants me to focus on film and TV,” she used to say all the time. I’m pretty certain he was her uncle and she was fucking him, but a manager is a manager.”

“I also wondered [what] would be my path as an older gay man…Would I still be watching porn and jerking off in the afternoon? Probably. And that made me happy.”

“Even if they didn’t cast me, I had walked into that room and poured my heart and guts out. There was nothing else I could have done. They would either agree with me that I was [who] they had been searching for, or they wouldn’t.” This is a beautiful way to look at the auditioning process.

“[During my audition] I wasn’t nervous, I wasn’t overwhelmed, I just felt like everything I had worked toward in the past, all my other auditions, had led me to this moment” I cannot wait for the day I go into an audition and have this exact feeling

“When it all (auditioning) comes together, when the hard work pays off and the circumstances line up and you are told you got the job, it’s one of the greatest feelings in the world. To get to do the thing that you love to do and get paid for it is a pretty incredible experience”

"Your career is something that starts with the first step, not with a promotion or a movie or an award. It begins the minute you say you are going to do it. So make it count."