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That's important because my U-Haul truck had an additional axle and we only had four dollars, so we had to pull over to the little side there and this was all pre-9/11 which was helpful – and go through change and had to give them change out of my backpack in order to be allowed into New York so literally my first trip in New York I was scraping for change.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              Rosamund Pike says she didn't even have enough to take a taxi.\u003cbr/\u003e              \"Everything was walking, trying to save every penny you had and then I remember when I did get a job and suddenly I thought, 'I can afford a taxi,' it was the most incredible feeling.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              \"Lady Bird\" director Greta Gerwig recalls driving by a marquee for her big break, the movie \"Greenberg\" co-starring Ben Stiller, but having nowhere to sleep that night.\u003cbr/\u003e              \"It was that moment of, 'There I am!' and 'Where am I going stay tonight?'\"\u003cbr/\u003e              Dermot Mulroney says his broke days didn't last that long. His father offered to pay his rent for a year and only needed to do so for two months.\u003cbr/\u003e              \"My dad owes me 10 months, but I think the rent was 300 dollars, split like, my portion so I'm going to ask him about that. 'Are you still good for it?'\"\u003cbr/\u003e            \u003cbr/\u003e\u003cbr/\u003e              ASSOCIATED PRESS\u003cbr/\u003e              FILE: New York, 21 April 2016\u003cbr/\u003e              1. Various of Patrick Wilson on the red carpet at the Tribeca Film Festival\u003cbr/\u003e              ASSOCIATED PRESS\u003cbr/\u003e              New York, 8 Dec. 2017\u003cbr/\u003e              2. SOUNDBITE (English) Patrick Wilson, actor:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"Once I graduated from college I worked during the summer doing the Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera, being in the ensemble of a bunch of musicals, and so I think I maybe raised like – I think I had 1500 dollars maybe at least to help me get into the city. That being said, that was in an account and I literally had no money in my – like a couple dollars and this was when the Lincoln Tunnel was about four dollars if you were a car, six dollars - two dollars each additional axle. That's important because my U-Haul truck had an additional axle and we only had four dollars, so we had to pull over to the little side there and this was all pre-9/11 which was helpful – and go through change and had to give them change out of my backpack in order to be allowed into New York so literally my first trip in New York I was scraping for change.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              ASSOCIATED PRESS\u003cbr/\u003e              FILE: Rome, 26 October 2017\u003cbr/\u003e              3. Various of Rosamund Pike on the red carpet\u003cbr/\u003e              ASSOCIATED PRESS\u003cbr/\u003e              New York, 19 December 2017\u003cbr/\u003e              4. SOUNDBITE (English) Rosamund Pike, actress:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"I lived in a house with, yeah, with about five boys when I started out and yeah I mean we kind of we didn't – I didn't have any money, never had taken a taxi, never - just everything was walking, trying to save every penny you had and then I remember when I did get a job and suddenly I thought, 'I can afford a taxi,' it was the most incredible feeling.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              ASSOCIATED PRESS\u003cbr/\u003e              FILE: New York, 1 October 2017\u003cbr/\u003e              5. Various Noah Baumbach, left, and Greta Gerwig, right, on the red carpet\u003cbr/\u003e              ASSOCIATED PRESS\u003cbr/\u003e              New York, 7 November 2017\u003cbr/\u003e              6. SOUNDBITE (English) Greta Gerwig, director/actress:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"I have many of those moments. I actually had a moment of being broke after I was successful because the way movies come out you're – sometimes you've done the thing that's the thing but you haven't yet got the next job – and I was in a film called 'Greenberg' which was my break. It was a big deal for me. And I had shot that movie and then I had not shot another movie and when it opened I was in Los Angeles and I had a hotel room for a few days for press and for the premiere and my parents came down from Sacramento and stayed with me because I was like, 'You guys, it's a party. Let's all hang out in my hotel room.' Anyway, once that was over I was staying in L.A. for auditions and I had no money. I had very little in my bank account and I was in, I had used the last of it to get a rental car and I remember driving past a marquee in Los Feliz, there's a cinema there, and my face was on it and I didn't have a place to stay that night and luckily my mom's friend, Karen, God bless her, and her husband were there helping their daughter with her new baby and they had a little kind of Airbnb type thing - before Airbnb - and they said, 'Oh, you can come and stay with us' and then I ended up getting two jobs and then it was fine but it was that moment of, 'There I am!' and 'Where am I going to stay tonight?'\"\u003cbr/\u003e              ASSOCIATED PRESS\u003cbr/\u003e              FILE: Los Angeles, 4 June 2016\u003cbr/\u003e              7. Medium Of Dermot Mulroney and his wife on the red carpet\u003cbr/\u003e              ASSOCIATED PRESS\u003cbr/\u003e              New York, 11 November 2017\u003cbr/\u003e              8. SOUNDBITE (English) Dermot Mulroney, actor:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"I worked jobs, you know, through college and really since I had a paper route as a 13-year-old, I always picked up little jobs. I had a little window washing service so I was never not working, even as a student, but I got a hot start coming out of college and starting a career so I didn't really spend grueling months trying to get my foothold or anything like that. In fact, the most wonderful thing my father said, was 'Since you're not going to graduate school or medical school or doing anything like that, I will pay your rent for one year and after that you're on your own.' So he paid it for two months - so as far as I'm concerned, my dad owes me 10 months, but I think the rent was 300 dollars, split like, my portion so I'm going to ask him about that. 'Are you still good for it?'\"\u003cbr/\u003e              ASSOCIATED PRESS\u003cbr/\u003e              New York, 4 December 2017\u003cbr/\u003e              9. SOUNDBITE (English) Kate McKinnon, actress:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"It was lentils every day. Lentils are a gorgeous staple. I still eat a lot of lentils actually.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              (Reporter: \"I had multiple roommates, slept on a wood floor, all that. Did you have a bed? You were ahead of me if you had a bed.'\")\u003cbr/\u003e              Kate McKinnon: \"I did have a bed. Not a frame but there was a mattress, so yeah, I guess I was riding high.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              ASSOCIATED PRESS\u003cbr/\u003e              FILE: Los Angeles, 17 September 2017\u003cbr/\u003e              10. 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