When I graduated, I was really lucky because I got hired immediately by CBS as a production assistant.
I'm lucky enough to do what I like for work - not everyone's that fortunate.
I got a job immediately after leaving high school; I was lucky - three dollars a week and all I could eat, working on a vegetable truck.
My first job was a Greek tragedy, and ever since, one job just seemed to roll onto the next. I've been terribly lucky.
First job I went out on in new York I got, and when I came back, the first job I went out on, I got.
This is going to sound terrible, but once I moved to New York, I never did a civilian job. I was extraordinarily lucky.
I've never had a job in my life that I was better than. I was always just lucky to have a job. And every job I had was a steppingstone to my next job, and I never quit my job until I had my next job.
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.
I mean, I always feel incredibly lucky to get a job.
I've been so lucky in all my jobs. I just, you know, when you hear nightmare stories of other jobs - which I'm sure are true, but I've been lucky and never experienced them.
There's always some extent of luck going into getting a job. I try not to think too much about my own looks or how I work. There's a danger in becoming too self-aware.
By late 1953, going to New York on vacation, I had lined up several Time Inc. interviews - and what they did was give me a lifelong appreciation of the importance of luck in getting a job.
I got a job right out of drama school as assistant stage manager at the Bristol Old Vic. I've been lucky enough to stay in work ever since.
I'm lucky to get jobs where I get these amazing film horses that make me look much better than I am.
And I've been lucky in that I haven't had another job besides acting in the last five years.
I never had to pound the pavement and really struggle after college.
I was only in LA for two weeks when I got that job. And I didn't work again for two years.
I worked probably fewer jobs than most people, or fewer real soul-killing jobs than other people. I've been a typist, a typesetter, a keyliner, cappuccino-maker. I think I've been pretty lucky.
I caught a break and took an entry-level job with the Houston Texans when I was 28.
I like writing. It's partly control freak, and partly I really like what I do for a living. I have the luckiest job in the world. I can get up every day and do what I love for a living.
