Dave Portnoy
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Podcast Appearances
And I'm getting paid $320 a day and people are telling me I'm good at it.
Will you please come back tomorrow and do it again?
And I was like, hell yeah, I'll come back again.
Is this even legal?
I'm having so much fun and you're telling me I'm good at this?
I can make a living doing this?
That's where I got the confidence.
And then continued on.
And look, Megan, I didn't go to Hollywood and have the long story of having to wait the tables for so long.
I actually went to Hollywood in the first two auditions I went on, actually got the job.
It was Angels in the Outfield and Boys on the Side.
So I had some dry spells later on in my career.
But boy, when I first got out there, I knocked out the first two auditions.
You got them.
So I went back and saw the early ones and look, you know, even in writing Greenlights, part of that was going back and looking 35 years of my journey.
And I looked at some of that stuff and I was like, oh, good gosh, the shame, the guilt going on.
Are you kidding me?
Look at the arrogant little prick you are.
Who do you think you are?
But then after a while, I started to chuckle at those things.