Richard Kind

So when I...

got his advice, he said, look, go be a producer and so you get to be in show business, but your business, I go, no, it's either I'm an actor or I'm a rich jeweler.

And I said, he said, well, you're not going to get famous or get known until you're in your 30s when you sort of grow into who you are.

Did I believe him?

Terry, I wish that I could say this is what I chose to do.

All I did was say yes to whatever was presented and my path was created by that.

I didn't set out to join Second City.

I went to some place in Chicago, Practical Theater Company.

They saw me and said, do you want to do Second City?

I said, yeah, well, Second City taught me a lot.

Four and a half years, all of that way station of waiting for roles and waiting for roles was spent on stage and getting paid and developing into the actor who I was in front of 400 people a night.

Well, okay.

My dad didn't trust me with the beautiful jewels or the expensive stuff.

I sold lighters and sterling silver keychains and the pens and stuff like that, maybe candelabras, but I didn't sell the expensive stuff.

And I was no good.

I was a good salesman.

My dad was a great salesman.

I'd spend 45 minutes with some guy saying, oh, you see these pearls?

You see how they're graduated?

You see how this set of the strand, the pearls match each other best?