Contrary to the thought of some, it does not take a great deal of intelligence to be an actor, just a script, a good memory and the ability to pretend your something your not. Some might even call it the ability to make believe.

Don’t get me wrong. Some actors are very intelligent, but not all. Take the ad I saw one night. The man stood there and told me I should not let the water run while I brush my teeth…in order to save water.

When I saw the ad, I shook my head and thought about it a while. In this case, I not only knew the actor wasn’t so bright, but one who wrote the script wasn’t all that brilliant either. The man telling me not to waste water likely had a big house that used more water in one day than I use in a month. Moreover, he lives in California where fresh water is far more sparse.

We must remember that the Jessica Fletcher woman doesn’t catch the bad guy because of her incredible abilities observance and deduction. The fact of the mater was that she simply read the script. All those guys on that Scorpion show, they weren’t really geniuses. Even more, most of the things they did on the show would not have worked. Not even the writers were all that smart.

I love the way actors just press one or two keys on a keyboard and poof, the answer pops up on the screen. That is pure Hollywood. First, it usually takes several keys. Second, it generally takes a while. It would seem Microsoft is responsible for that. Windows nowadays is getting slower than molasses.

However, when an actor stands up there and tells us something or other is so, we really need to take it with a grain of salt. All they are doing is reading a script. They may or may not agree with what they read. After all. They are paid for it. When people are paid to say something, it makes it difficult for me to believe they believe what the are saying.

I have some experience on the matter. Some actor stood up there and said how good product xyz is. When I go out and buy that product, I find out the actor was either ignorant or lying. It makes no difference to me which. It amounts to the same thing.

By the way, this sort of goes for baseball and football players too. After all, that athlete is getting a lot of money to say how good the product is, even if he never used it.

One more thing everyone should remember. That actors job is to deceive you, to make you think, if only for a short time, that he is someone, perhaps something he isn’t. If he doesn’t fool you, he isn’t a good actor.