Usually, when you tell people that you're an actor, they naturally  inquire "what have you been in?" I don't imagine this is necessarily  malicious, but for most of us it's an embarrassing question to answer.  Because we know the typical person only consumes mainstream media, but  most of the jobs we actors work will never enter the mainstream. It's  all indie stuff these days. And some of us have not appeared in any  released projects at all. 

So that leaves us in a pickle. What do we say without demeaning  ourselves or the innocent inquirer? No worries, I got it covered!