The life of an actor is not filled with limousines and talk-show interviews. I've moved crates of beer; I've been a bartender, personal assistant, butler. But all those skills have helped me in the business aspect of what I do.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Most of the early part of an actor's career, you do the jobs you get.
The thing about being an actor is that every new job is a new challenge. Sometimes you'll have a shot, and it doesn't work. Sometimes it'll work better than you expected.
As an actor, as you grow into where you fit in the industry, you're just trying to find the opportunities, hoping they grow and you get to do more.
One of the great things about my job is I get to do all of these things that I may not experience had I not been an actor.
It is a tough business but if you get yourself in a situation like I, you can maintain a career over many years. That, to me, is a successful actor.
Being an actor is just like being any other sort of self-employed person - we're all just happy to have a job in the first place, but we also thrive off the uncertainty of it.
I've probably had more jobs than any other actor living.
To have a job you can count on as an actor is so rare, whether that means belonging to a regional theater company or being on TV.
Through all of this lovely interviewing, and nice things people say, and the rest of it, I have learned that I am an actor. That is my profession. That is my job. That is how I make a living. So I am just out there making a living.
I'm the most out-of-work actor I know. In the last two years I've basically taken meetings for a living.