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I do smaller films, I'm not getting big paydays. I feel like we're just kind of scraping together here.

I am still writing my own checks for more or less substantial amounts every week in order to squeeze by the weekend.

I never had a budget, I never had a manager, I never had a PR. I never had nothing. I was getting everything straight out the mud.

I hung onto Hollywood by the skin of my teeth, and at first I fought over every piece of bread. Later, I got very small parts.

Not a single, substantial, commercially-successful product had come from an adequately-finded team. They'd always come from the scrounging, scrapping, underfunded teams.

I lived on couches for something like six months. I had no home. I was totally broke. I would stay at a friend's house for two weeks, then move because I didn't want to become this permanent mooch.

It's tough when you are fighting relegation.

Even more important maybe, or equally more important at least, is they don't have to scrap for a living.

It's just as easy for me to be building a fence somewhere and scraping by on unemployment in between doing a guest star spot. I've been there.