I was literally just going and applying for jobs, and I couldn't get a job, and I was getting more and more broke, and you find yourself groveling for jobs you don't even want.
A handful of older, romantic leading men, like Sean Connery, Jack Nicholson, and Robert Redford are still landing parts.
The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape.

