Nadia Halstrom
23 Apr 2026
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I have three versions and I hate all of them. The honest one invites the follow-up question I dread, and the deflecting one makes me feel like a fraud.
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What do you say at a party when someone asks what you do?
5 replies
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Anneke Vos
24 Apr 2026
"I am an actor." Full stop. Then let the silence be theirs to fill.
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Lorraine Petit
26 Apr 2026
The follow-up you dread is "would I have seen you in anything" and the answer is "probably not, most acting work is invisible". Said cheerfully it ends the topic instantly.
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Denise Aguilar
28 Apr 2026
I say what I am working on rather than what I am. "I am in a play in March" is a conversation. "I am an actor" is a job interview.
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Nathan Ostrowski
4 May 2026
It took me about eight years to stop apologizing in that sentence. Nobody asks a plumber if they are a real plumber.
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Yvette Brossard
6 May 2026
Honestly the dread fades once you have said it out loud four hundred times.
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