Hermit, did you ever see the movie, My Favorite Year? There's a moment where Peter O'Toole is hanging from a fire hose on a skyscraper (drunk) and someone looking down from a penthouse party sees him and says, "that actor - from that movie - whatever it was, is beneath us" - the person he was talking responded - "well of course he's beneath us - he's an actor..." I'm not really sure just why I needed to say that just now...
"There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot, but there are others who, with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun." Pablo Picasso