And this one time in Henry the V....

I'm not an actors actor. I began to realize this recently. The other day I was at a restaurant with a friend and as we were leaving I heard the couple in the next booth talking about festivals ie. "Yes I auditioned for ___, and then when I was 25 I was in the longest run of____, I was the best Juliet ever." As I go through this crazy business I have noticed that more and more people are having this way of speaking ingrained in them. There's this great line in the movie/play Goodbye girl: Ask an actor a question he gives you his credits. Oh my God, am I finding this to be true. And I am terrible at it, I really don't want to work on the art of subtle name dropping and muckity-muck pretentious conversation. I mean I do what I do and I love it but the truth is I find discussing it to the point of nausea is boring for me and the listener. Point blank, I would rather tell you about my dog shitting on the kitchen floor then about a role that I auditioned for back in '01.