When Tobolowsky was in Vancouver, a man came up to him in a bar while Tobolowsky was reading a script and asked him if he was an extra. Tobolowsky told him he was the main villain in the film in which he was acting. "Extras always say they're actors," the man told him, according to Tobolowsky. "I can't think of any other profession publicly hammered to the extent that acting is on a regular basis," Tobolowsky wrote. "I would never go up to someone and say, 'So you say you're a waiter? What restaurant do you work at? Nice place, or just a McDonald's? If it's a McDonald's, then you're not really a waiter. Do you do dinner or just lunch? Do you have a jacket with your name on it? Oh, you don't have a full bar – just wine, okay, okay. I get it.'"
