Yes, These Words Actually Were Spoken.

Former New York City Ballet dancer, coming over to me and two other people on set the other day because she "couldn't stand the negativity" of the "harsh angular-faced, too-old-to-be-here" person she had been talking with: "People are so judgmental of me.  They must love negativity, and I'm just a positive person.  I live on the Upper West Side near Lincoln Center, and just because I have an amazing body and work out and look like, you know [gesturing to her face, which I guess we were all supposed to think was stunningly difficult-to-live-with gorgeous], everyone's always looking at me so judgmentally.  I have to wear baggy clothes and no makeup and a hat when I go for a walk if I don't want people to stare meanly and jealously and judge.  They're so jealous that I'm so thin."

Uh-huh.  Because good-looking, in-shape people are so rare in NYC.  Especially in the Lincoln Center area near the two major ballet companies and two huge ballet schools....

At another point during the day, she snapped at me, "You're like, just a 20-yr old" (well, hello, accidental backhanded compliment -- yes, I will accept you.) -- "you have no experience compared to me."  (I was trying to explain that taking Broadway to the set when we were already on Broadway would be faster than taking an avenue and a cross street because of that whole hypotenuse-is-shorter-than-the-sum-of-the-other-two-sides rule, or simply because a straight line is the shortest distance between two points, but apparently, as she so kindly explained in her 5 minute lecture-rant at me, the fact that she's a real estate agent and older than I am negates geometry.)  And her day wasn't complete without getting someone else in trouble, making up gossip about people (I'm proud to be included in that group of people), and telling a perfectly-shaped woman who loved the chocolate covered almonds at the craft services table, "I won't eat those.  I used to be a ballerina, so I'm very disciplined.... No offense."

At lunch she had a whole table to herself.

She's clearly doing a great job of spreading that positivity.