"You have to be patient. You have to give yourself a chance. When you’re first pursuing a job in a field like this, there’s a strong tendency to panic. When I took classes with Del Close, he would challenge all of us to wait— to not make the cheap, easy joke in a scene, but to have faith that something funnier and more organic was on the way. It can be that way with a career too. There are a lot of times when your biggest task is to just stay clam and keep working."