Jon Hamm
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Like, you gotta get picked, you know what I mean?
You can't just go and like, I'm gonna be an actor in my room by myself.
That's being a crazy person.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure.
So then, you know, it was like, you go to either LA or New York, basically.
It wasn't happening in St.
Louis.
So I was like, all right, I packed up my shit.
I had $150 in my name.
My grandfather gave me a check for $100 and that tripled my money.
And I bailed out.
I went west, man.
And that was it in 1995.
So, you know, I felt like I had to give it a try.
Or it would have been the two saddest words in the English language, like, what if?
Yeah.
You know, so off I went.
And it only took three or four years to get it going.
Yeah, you know, because I was a teacher.
I went back to my old high school and I taught school for one year.