Jason Bateman

There's no diploma that you can kind of job interview after job interview.

And it's, it's, I remember buying the attitude that I realized I should have been renting.

When, you know, things kind of dried up and I was really confident until they just didn't want me anymore.

And it's like, well, now you got to build up a whole ego and coping mechanism to get yourself confident that's not reliant on employment.

That's really hard to do.

The Hogan family was after that, or Valerie, yeah, yeah.

Oh, I was so confident.

I thought I was such hot shit.

And then the phone stopped ringing.

I did not know what to do.

My 20s was a whole regroup.

I just had to build it back up from zero.

It's not a meritocracy.

You know, like in sports, like if you're a 300 hitter, you're guaranteed employment.

That's true.

In acting or any form of, pardon the term, art, it's so subjective.

You can't rely on, well, I'm the best at singing or the best at painting or it doesn't matter.

The best in who's eye, you know?

Right.

But you earned that position.