Getting on a popular, long-running show like 'Happy Days' is the actor's equivalent of winning the lottery.
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They say getting a show on the air and having it be a success, literally, the odds are like winning the lottery. For me, I've won the lottery several times, so I've been awfully lucky.
I feel like I won the Lotto, as far as that show's concerned.
'Happy Days' is the type of show that represents the best we can be. It's something warm, something tactile when life was good and life was simple.
As an actor, we're unemployed a lot, so I'm familiar with the stress of trying to get a gig, and sometimes you take shows that you don't really want to do to keep the money coming in.
If you have the opportunity as an actor to control your career in any way, then you've won the jackpot.
People need to realise what real happiness and success is, because success as an actor is fleeting. You can be up there one day and gone the next.
Seeing someone happy on set is just a very small slice of the reality of an actor's life.
It's definitely one of those things when you decide to be an actor that it would be really cool to be in a Broadway show or a series regular on a hit show.
I always say this - As an actor, we're lucky to get a job. Then we're lucky that anybody gives a damn to watch the thing that we're in.
As an actor, I'm always just so pumped when I get any job. To be a working actor takes a lot of luck.
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