The networks have to answer to their sponsors. That's the difficult thing you learn.

I was always snobby about soap operas, and commercials, too, but one does have to eat. I remember auditioning for a commercial for a mouthwash or chewing gum or something, and I had to pretend to be the back end of somebody in a horse costume. After that, I said, 'That's it. That's it. You've sunk too far!'

This is going to sound terrible, but once I moved to New York, I never did a civilian job. I was extraordinarily lucky.

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