Film Courage: Chad, you've said that you've made a decision to have your life as an actor
and whatever ups and downs that brings but do you look at your career as a
business? Chad Lindberg: Yes I do think that it's a business they call it was a show
business not show friends it's a business it's a very hard business but
it's very rewarding too if you're able to break in and and do some of the great
projects that I've done I feel very lucky but there is a business that comes
with it you got to make hard decisions sometimes you have to part ways with you
know your agent or your manager or somebody that you've built a
relationship with and you have to move on and those are the worst conversations
to have they are awful especially me I I take I take I take everything to heart
and I just don't take any relationship granted for granted so yeah there are
hard choices and it it is a business however if you can if you can focus on
your creativity and remind yourself of why you're doing it and and the love
that you have for it the business part so it's going to be there but it won't
become I don't think you should become the main focus I think we should focus
on our creativity and then yeah we got we got to play at a game - have you ever
had a friendship or an acquaintance sour because they felt intimidated maybe they
felt like their accomplishments didn't measure up with yours yeah
I've had I've had friends yeah the family is a funny thing
that dead that gets sort of on the way of friendships all the friendships I've
had have you should be happy for your for your friends because their success
is my success my success is your success I'm the same way on on Twitter and
Instagram like I'll boost up my friends and hopefully they'll do the same for me
I mean that's why we're doing this we have to lift each other up I've had
friends I've had a friend take his own life because he didn't think he was good
enough I was somebody that I worked with in this town and it's a reminder of
again where this place can take you if you're not you know if you don't reach
out and it's sort of be like hey you know you're not the only one that's
feeling this stuff so it's I've seen it go tons of different ways I've seen
friends you know succeed I've seen friends move back home I've seen friends
unfortunately pass on and you know it happens you know it's it's a really hard
industry and and I again and I'll go back to the guy today who wanted me to
get him into the business man you got to be 110 percent about this business or
don't don't do it because it's it's just so hard and but it's who you are then I
can't imagine doing anything else so then pursue it yeah if you if you
can't imagine doing anything else and you should absolutely pursue it and see
where it goes take a risk take a chance you know I think that's why we're here
on this earth is to take chances what if you learned about making money
as an actor and if that's too personal no no no no I try to get my mom what
have you learned about making money as an actor that it comes and goes very
quickly too quickly sometimes the the main misconception that people have is
that actors are rich that we live you know lavishly and some do some do you
know I think a very small percentage do but you know for the majority of us
working actors you know we'll have a little income come in and then
it's gone the next minute and it's tough you know even at this point yeah and in
my career it's still hard and people like oh you're rich and you're no I'm
not I'm really not um again you know I'm not I'm not season
ten on a series that's been going on for years I you know I am NOT so and so
that's making twenty million dollars a picture it just doesn't picture what am
I like back in the day is now I'm calling them pictures I think we should
go back to kind of pictures yeah but yeah the most common misconception is
that we're rich and that's just not the case and you know you know I'll find any
other way to bring that money in and thank God there are residuals that keep
us alive you know and I found other ways to bring an income but it's tough man
and I would say you know hang on to your money if you get it and even I have a
problem with that you know because there's no there's no study there's not
a steady job you know what I mean so it's like when it comes in you feel like
you got to enjoy you know because you don't know when it's going to come next
and you know even at this age I have to learn to to hang on to it's because you
just don't know when it's going to when you're gonna get paid again and it could
be you could you could get paid very well or you know not get paid and you
got to respect the money yeah it's funny if you do a search and Google search on
just any famous person or well-known person those like the drop down
suggestions and so it'll it'll suggest you know whether the person is married
or not and then inevitably like the third thing is net worth it's just so
funny that everybody wants to know it it is right
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