It just doesn’t go with my story to be a first round pick, because I had to grind my whole life.
I grind my teeth and keep my thumbs in so tight that I’ve dislocated them, just not to scream. Sometimes as an actor one is lucky enough to be asked to scream.
When I appear in public people expect me to neigh, grind my teeth, paw the ground and swish my tail – none of which is easy.
Goal line is goal line. You go down there and it’s the grit and grind of the game.
My confidence comes from the daily grind – training my butt off day in and day out.
For me, the main thing is to continue to work, continue to grind on everything and stay focused.
Eight shows in six days can become very tiring – actually, a grind. It’s not that I ever dreaded going to work because I always maintained a level of gratitude.
That’s what the grind is, doing all the little things knowing that something may not come out of it. It probably won’t. But the goal is to get a shot at it.
