21/06/2026
"Before Jennifer Aniston was earning one million dollars per episode of Friends, before the magazine covers and the red carpets and the perfume lines, she was a nineteen-year-old girl on a bicycle weaving through New York City traffic, working as a courier because that was what paid the rent. She has called it the hardest job she ever had, and somehow, through all of it, there were no traffic accidents during that period. (Telegrafi) After the bicycle, she delivered ice cream. After the ice cream, she waited tables and, by her own admission, was not particularly good at it. She once told Marie Claire that she dropped more than one Alpine burger into customers' laps and recalled, 'You just do not want all of that Swiss cheese and mushrooms in your pants. I wasn't a good waitress, but I was told I was very nice and charming, so people liked me anyway.' (E! News) After moving to Hollywood, she worked as a telemarketing operator while going on auditions. Think about that voice, that warm and disarming voice, calling strangers on the phone and trying to sell them something. She then met a TV executive at a Los Angeles gas station who told her not to give up, because he had a show in the works. That show was Friends. Sometimes the whole trajectory of a life pivots on a gas station conversation. Never give up, ever. "
