The myth that your waiter in New York is an actor is true. It's a very difficult, competitive business to be in. As an actor, you have to think of the art and the love of doing plays and creating characters...and there's some part of you that has to function in this world of commerce.

Carol Goodheart

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No one gets discovered. Even people picked off the cover of a magazine, you can't become an actor overnight. You can't come off the page or off a stool in a drug store and become an actor.

— Carol Goodheart

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If you start out wanting to be Julia Roberts, the odds are like winning the lottery. But if you want to be an actor there's a world of possibilities out there...There's a huge network of working actors who aren't Julia Roberts.

— Carol Goodheart

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A myth is a story that is "more than true." Many stories are true because one person, somewhere, at some time, lived it. But a myth is more than true because it is lived by all of us, at some level. It's a story that connects and speaks to us all.

What was your first job title?
Waiter. It was at a showy opera festival in a barn in Oxfordshire. I did it for a whole summer and people would be so extraordinarily rude that it made me decide that I would never be rude in my life, specifically to people who were kind enough to serve things.

— Tom Hiddleston

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Network TV is such a difficult, competitive landscape.

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