-Congratulations on --
not only this great
best-selling book --
Number-one best-selling book.
I mean, come on!
[ Cheers and applause ]
-I don't even know
what to say.
How cool is that?
-It's bananas.
I'm like, "People want to hear
what I have to say?"
-Yeah.
-Okay.
-Did you ever think
you would write a book?
-No! No! No.
When one of my, you know --
One of my agents was like,
"Are you interested?"
And I'm like, "What do I
have to say about anything?"
And then I would meet people
and cry with them
in bathrooms, you know?
That's what we do.
-That's what we do, yeah.
-And people
would always ask like,
"How did you become successful?"
And I'm like, "I don't know."
I actually don't know.
-So, maybe this
might be helpful for you.
-Well, so I went back --
It was helpful for me.
-Yeah, you're like, "Oh, this
is how I became successful."
-It's really self-help.
Got some real self-help.
-You actually helped yourself.
-Isn't that cute?
-Yeah.
-So, I went back
and just sort of, like,
thought about my life lessons,
and I really realized that
it's not what happens to you,
but what happens for you.
And so every single lesson
that, like, informed my life
and where I'm at right now,
was really advantageous
to kind of share
and be very, very vulnerable
in the process.
But it's scary --
It's still scary. It's scary.
No.
-Yes. Yes.
There's a lot of --
some deep stuff about my life.
-No, I know.
I looked through it.
I like the gratitude list.
-Yes.
-Do you make that --
Do you really make that
every day, a gratitude list?
-Sometimes I don't put
pen to paper,
but I definitely wake up
and I will say, you know,
I'm grateful for
my mobility, electricity,
things that we sort of
take for granted all the time.
And it's really beautiful
because the more
grateful you are,
the more that you receive.
-Do you remember what
you were grateful for today?
-Yes, actually.
My really delicious bed,
because I haven't
had much sleep.
Honestly, like, there are
people who don't have beds.
I know it sounds so ridiculous
and cliché and ridiculous.
But, really, people don't
have beds or electricity
or, you know, freedom to
even do what they want to do.
And so, um -- I know it sounds
so silly, but it's true.
-No, I love that.
You're very humble.
I mean, I love
the stories in here, too,
about you moving to L.A.
and not to be an actor.
You were, like,
an agent for a while.
-Oh, yes. I was a talent
agent for nine years.
I became an agent's assistant,
'cause I needed to --
Here's the thing.
I needed a job.
And I can't work
with the general public
because if I was waiting tables,
I'm not sure I'd be good at it.
-No, I wouldn't
be good at it, either.
-I'm like,
"What do you want? Oh, God."
It'd be just too much.
-Yeah, it's a lot of work.
-So my agent, luckily, was like,
"Hey, do you want to come
and work with me?"
And I'm like, "Uh..."
And the first day
I worked with her, she's like,
"Don't look at me
while I'm on the phone."
And I'm like,
"What does that mean? Ahh!"
It was scary because I, like,
didn't want her
to drop me as a client,
but, then, I'm her assistant.
So, anyway, I end up working
in the youth department
and then becoming
an agent myself.
-Really?
-Represented Ariana Grande.
-Is that right?
-Dove Cameron.
Yeah, I was on the team
that represented both of
those incredible ladies.
-How fun is that?
-It's cra-- It's so fun.
Also, like, you know
they're going to be stars
when you meet them for the
first time, and you're like --
-Baby Ariana. You were like --
-Like, before "Victorious."
-She still is a baby, yeah.
-Yes, before "Victorious," like,
right after "13" on Broadway.
-Wow. Isn't that fun?
-Yeah, so -- It's so cool.
-And then you have that,
but then --
From that story,
which was great,
but also the story
of you working in McDonald's
and you realizing
that that's the first time
that you kind of started
to hone your actor skills.
-Listen.
You got to make due, right?
-I mean, yeah.
-And they were, like,
"Chrissy, you're gregarious.
"Go in the back drive-through."
I'm like, "Okay."
And so you get bored, because
you're back there by yourself
while your friends are
making fries in the front.
And you're, like, "Wait.
Who am I going to talk to?"
Yourself and maybe
the occasional customer.
So I would just put on accents,
and I'm like...
[ British accent ]
"Welcome to McDonald's.
Can I help you, please?"
[ Normal voice ] Right?
Just -- What?
Gainesville, Florida.
There's some English girl
in Gainesville, Florida.
-You're in Gainesville, Florida.
-There was that day.
-Really?
-Except for a gentleman,
who comes up to the --
He was going to the
University of Florida.
He comes up to the window,
and he's like,
[ British accent ] "Right!
Where you from, then?"
[ Normal voice ]
And I was like, "Ahh!"
[ British accent ]
"I'm from Leeds."
He's like, "Oh, you don't have
a proper Leeds accent!"
So I'm like, "I..."
-"I'm bad at lying!"
-I'm like, "I can't do this!"
-"I can't lie anymore!"
-But, also, a really funny story
about McDonald's is I was --
My manager was passing by,
and I was going to ask her
if I can go to the bathroom,
but instead of asking her,
on my, you know, little system,
I said, "Hi!
Can I go to the bathroom?"
-Instead of, "Hi.
Can I take your order?"
-Yeah, instead of,
"Hi. Can I take your order."
"Hi. Can I go to the bathroom?"
-Through the speaker, yeah.
-Through the speaker.
And the woman comes up,
and she's like,
"Did everything
come out all right?"
-[ Laughs ]
-Thoughtful.
She was thoughtful.
-Very thoughtful old lady.
