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I told my parents I wanted an agent, and they decided to let me have a go at it. Then I started working right away. I was 12.

I mean, I've always had scattered interests, but I never went on stage to get an agent or anything like that.

I never had trouble getting an agent. I went out and got my first couple roles, and literally within six months I never had to have another job other than acting.

I'd knocked on doors when I'd gone to theater school in Los Angeles the summer of my junior year, trying to find an agent and submitting headshots, but nobody would see me, and I knew it was virtually impossible to get an audition if you didn't have an agent.

I had been struggling to get roles in Hollywood for three and a half years after leaving the WWE. Then I finally got an agent - the agent I have now. He's a great guy, but he turned me down three times before he even decided to take me on a as a client.

I wanted to become an actor. I went to Guildhall School of Music and Drama, which is one of the main drama schools in London where you go when you are older. But I was doing the junior one when I was a kid. And some friends there had agents. I was fourteen and I was like, "I want an agent! It sounds awesome!" I had no idea what that was. I thought those guys looked like men in black. They were hanging around in suits all the time. So I luckily got a very good agent in London and started auditioning. And then when I was 16, I got my first film and I've been working ever since.

Probably your first agent is going to be some guy who also handles dog acts.

I think as working actors, it's like sales. You're only as good as your last sale, so you put your all into something and you just hope that from that you can get your next job.

Any actor who tells you that he makes choices, absolutely, is wrong. You find work and work finds you.

With acting, I always felt like I didn't have control of it. It was all about other people giving me a job.

My advice after thirty years in the business is sign with an agency of reasonable size.

While I was in high school, I started working professionally and got an agent.

You don't take a job in acting at all expecting 25 years in and a pension.

I'm super grateful to be an employed actor.

I had an agent in Salt Lake City, but acting was more like a hobby.

I'm a stand-up. I'm never worried about getting my next role. That's never distressing to me.

I don't know so much about making it, because I think of myself as a working actor who's always got my eye on what's going to be the next job. I've been acting for 22 years, and I think there's something to be said for simply staying in the game.

I speak to my agent about great roles, and he's like, 'They are all going to Will Smith.'

I'm a working actor, so I do pretty much whatever comes along because it's my job.

I think the hardest thing about being an actor is between jobs when you don't know and wondering if you'll ever work again. It's kind of a crazy business.

My brother's friend worked at a TV station, so we went in; the producer of a show asked if I wouldn't mind taking some photos for his wife, who was a talent agent. Next thing I know, I'm enroute to the agency.

I love to read scripts. But I am very happy right now to say that I am a working actor. In this town of Los Angeles, the phrase 'I'm an actor' is overrated. So, I like to say, 'I'm a working actor.'

I'm trying to treat it as a hobby. Making bread and butter as an actor is tough.

I got an agent when I was 16 up in Vancouver, Canada.

Well, an actor is an actor is actor, to paraphrase someone or other and the opportunity to work, to have a steady engagement, certainly seemed like an appealing concept to me.