text:  I gather you spent a lot of years waiting tables and studying acting, different classes, found a teacher who was terrific, and managed to find work in, you know, some film and some TV series in your 20s, including landing a spot on Ally McBeal, which younger listeners may not know. It was a huge hit at the time when network TV was kind of the only thing you saw on television. When was it clear to you, yeah, I can give up the restaurant jobs and make a career of this?