I guess it’s usually misquoted, people usually say, “If you build it, they will come.” But in Field Of Dreams, Kevin Costner’s character hears “If you build it, HE will come.” I guess, in a way, it actually works the way it was said originally. I’m realizing that I am a BRAND, a BUSINESS. I’m no longer just an actor with a ‘B’ job. I think as artists, it’s hard to think of us as a business and well, to even think with a business mind. I just overheard a make-up artist on set say she’d never worked in an office. She said that the joke with her fellow Emory classmates is they’re not good at math. “That’s why I date Jewish men so they can figure out the tip.” But what I heard was, that she’s an artist, she doesn’t do the ‘business thing’ it’s not her strength. I also saw a tweet from Felicia Day today, mentioning digging up W-9’s and getting credit reports and that the business stuff takes longer than the creative at times. I’m rambling a bit, there’s a lot of stuff rolling around in my head lately.

One of my teachers, Richard Lawson talks about the misconception of an actor and as a character. He’d take two tapes (before digitally recording critiques at The Beverly Hills Playhouse) and hold them up. He’d say, “This is you as the actor, this is you as the character. They look identical, but they are different. You have to learn to let that character go. You created it, put it out there and now it’s done.” I took that literally and said, well my ‘acting career’ is that over there, disconnected from me, Mark, the person.