Rita Wilson

And I get turned down from Juilliard.

I get turned down from RADA.

And then I got waitlisted at Lambda.

And I thought, oh my God.

And I would call them like, hi, is there any...

Any chance that you know yet if I'll be accepted?

I mean, I didn't know why I was being waitlisted, you know, because I was already a professional.

I was a little bit older than kids just getting out of high school.

So I was probably like 23 or something as opposed to 18.

And when I got the call that I was accepted, I was ecstatic, ecstatic.

And it was one of the greatest years of my life.

But it was scary because I definitely thought I was, I had already failed two other auditions and didn't get in.

And then being waitlisted is a failure also because you're like, it's not just a slam dunk.

And I loved that course.

And I remember the principal at the end of our course, at the end of the year, he came into the class and he said,

I want you to look around and only five of you will still be doing this in five years."

And I was like, don't look at me.

I'm going to be doing it in five years.

Now I'm not one of the others.

I think we were maybe a group of 30.