I always get a little uppity when I hear the phrase 'TV actor. ' It's like saying you're a magazine reporter. I was in the theater for ten years before I ever had a TV audition.
But one led to two, two led to four, four led to eight, until at the end it was about 85 a day - the doctors could not believe I was taking that much. And that was just the valium - I'm not talking about the other pills I went through.