As far as actors go, Robert Reed was television’s leading man in the 1970s. The actor scorched his mark on the medium in miniseries like Roots. However, Reed is perhaps best known as Brady patriarch Mike Brady of The Brady Bunch.

With so many successes, Reed was quick to count his blessings and slow to complain.

“There isn’t much I dislike,” said Reed during an interview with The Daily News. “I do hate taking off makeup. What can be a chore is learning lines when you have to do a whole play in a hurry.”

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Reed also had the fortune of forming lasting friendships with his co-stars, with any disagreements few and far between.

“I’ve worked with some people that I didn’t get along with, but I have never had the displeasure of working with someone I really disliked,” said the actor.

Despite all of these joys, Reed understood that working as an actor wasn’t a non-stop party of successes. The actor admitted that he often struggled with bouts of self-confidence.

“You can only spend so long in this business and not suffer the problems that people do,” said Reed. “For example, insecurity being one of them. You are always afraid you are going to fail and do a large part of the time, and it takes its toll, I suppose.”

But while the actor admitted he’d never advise anyone to go into acting, it wasn’t for the reasons one might assume. Reed maintained that every person was in charge of their own destiny, and each individual had the right to live their own lives as they saw fit.

“I wouldn’t recommend any profession for anybody to go into,” said the actor. “It’s just something you don’t recommend. It has to be an individual decision somebody has to make, and I certainly wouldn’t encourage or discourage anybody going into the arts. It is too difficult and you have to have your own motivations, and if you haven’t got them, you’re better not to go into it anyway.”