I'm a grinding actor. That's how I've always viewed myself. You go from one job to the next.
Going to your set with the headphones on in the middle of the night so that your parents don't know what you're doing when you're supposed to be asleep is great. I was rocking the bedroom. That was so much more fun when I got the 1200s.
Some people take 10 years to write a book and some can do one in under a year.