Ryan Serhant
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
I ran out of money.
I think people confuse speed bumps with brick walls.
And I had a dream.
I wanted to do theater.
I wasn't even thinking TV, movies.
It was theater.
I liked being on stage.
It was the only thing I was OK at.
I wasn't even good or great.
I was OK.
And it was better than anything else that I was doing.
And I came to New York to try it.
My grandfather had died.
$20,000 I put into two CDs of $10,000 a piece.
And I was like, that will last me seven years.
And I did side gigs, et cetera.
And I was hand modeling, which paid me $150 an hour in cash.
Just FYI.
Like, I was rich.
And for a short period of time, I was a very, very big hand model because I played piano when I was a kid, and I have very, very long and very, very skilled fingers.