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 East Carolina. I loved that school. If I had never gone there, I probably would have not gone on to be an actor. So I say thank God I didn't study enough in high school to get into the school of my choice.
Technically, first I was paid to be an extra. My first line was in a TV show called "Great Scott" and I said "A carton of eggs." I think I made whatever SAG scale was at that point. I think it was $550 or $575 a day.
I almost wish we had a behind the scenes episode, although I guess people would not be that interested in it.
What you think will bother you sometimes is not even remotely what ends up bothering you. Nudity is something that I never thought I'd do. The only reason I have any reservation in talking about this is because of my family.
It's
not a bad idea to be single, so I can concentrate on my job.
I think it was this last movie, "Breast Men". It's a very insightful question because this is the first job where I felt like I can stand up in front of a room full of people and say I am an actor.
I think it was definitely "Breast Men". I felt like that a little bit with "Jerry Maguire" and "Leaving Las Vegas".
Well, that's always a hard one because I think a lot of people can get the acting bug when they are a little kid. I want to be a fireman, I want to be a policeman, I want to be a movie star. Realistically I didn't start thinking about it until I was in college.
Yeah, and incredibly risky. This business does change you to the extent.
I've gotten somewhere and I have a place in my mind that I want to move forward to. I have a toehold. I'm still looking for another toehold and a hand spot but I do feel like at this point I am moving forward.
I couldn't think of another job that was going to interest me on a day in and day out basis. I went to the head of the theater department at my college when I was a junior and told him I'd like to be an actor. He said he didn't think it would work out for me, that I didn't have what it takes. Of course, that was a great inspiration to go out and do it.
It's so completely rewarding. It's such a different life than I thought I would have. I'm sure for Elisabeth Shue it was interesting and creatively fulfilling to play that type of character.
This job is like a lot of other jobs. You spend your first five years plugging away and learning as much as you can. Jobs that maybe don't fill you creatively but do teach you a lot about what you enjoy, what you may be good at and what you're not good at doing.
It's always amazing to me, and disturbing at the same time, that we get paid for things like that, but it's rewarding when you do. It also is a very interesting concept that you get paid to write about being human and I get paid to express being human.
We are here today because two characters from a previous episode have decided to come back, and there has been some money stolen and now, in order to get away, they have decided to jump off the bridge.
I just sort of looked at it and said these people have a really good gig. They get to travel, they have an interesting job and they actually get paid for pretending on a daily basis.
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