I always tell people, making it in Hollywood is like playing the lottery. There's a lot of luck involved. To be successful, you've got to love acting more than anything in the world.

Almost 50 percent of the work actors used to do for television is gone. Broadcast stations are all about money -- with reality shows they don't have to pay actors, or writers, and no sets are needed.

But I never aspired to be a soap opera star. I always wanted to do good dramatic roles on TV and in the movies.

Oh, I don’t buy lottery tickets... because if I won, and I was capable of that kind of odd luck, then I would also be equally capable of extremely bad luck, like getting struck by lightning, or falling out of window or something. I’d rather just not know.

Life is a lottery that we’ve already won. But most people have not cashed in their tickets.

But a lottery isn't meaningless. Someone has to win.