15 Fun Facts That Will Make You Fall Madly In Love with Jon Hamm

10. He set a deadline to succeed in Hollywood — at the age of 30.

“You either suck that up and find another agent, or you go home and say you gave it a shot, but that’s the end of that. The last thing I wanted to be out here was one of those actors who’s 45 years old, with a tenuous grasp of their own reality, and not really working much. So I gave myself five years. I said, if I can’t get it going by the time I’m 30, I’m in the wrong place. And as soon as I said that, it’s like I started working right away,” he said in an interview.

11. He used to be a waiter.

While waiting tables, he landed his first substantial acting gig – a recurring role on the TV drama Providence. He also appeared in the Mel Gibson film, “We Were Soldiers”, and a slew of TV roles that enabled him to quit his day job.

“I’ve probably been a waiter longer than I’ve really been anything else,” he tells Vanity Fair of finally getting his Hollywood break.

12. He also took a job as a set designer for a softcore pornography production.

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