Fran Drescher skyrocketed to international fame when she starred in her very own sitcom “The Nanny,” which ran from 1993 until 1999. Though Drescher found massive success on the show, her road to stardom in Hollywood was anything but easy for her.

Drescher told Fox News that before she was cast on the show, she felt disrespected by Hollywood based on the roles she was being given, as she felt that she was much “smarter” than many of the executives making decisions at the top.

“I think that I’ve always been entrepreneurial to a certain degree,” Drescher explained. “I mean, even when I was in high school and sometime after when I started going up on commercials and things as an actress during my freshman year of college and because I began working – I decided to drop out of college and then go to Beauty Culture school in case the acting didn’t work out, I could always get into the hairdressing business, but not working in a local, you know, beauty parlor in the neighborhood, but aspiring to become the Beverly [Adams] Sassoon of my time.”

“And when I was working as an actress, I wasn’t really happy with the work I was getting for the most part,” She continued, adding that early on in her career, she would be relegated to playing “the hooker with the heart of gold.”

“And I really felt like – the thing that I can’t do is kind of have my wings clipped. I can’t really be a ‘yes’ man. I can’t really just do what I’m told if I don’t think it’s right,” Drescher said. “And so I made a promise to myself that I was either going to manifest getting on the inside of this business in a big way, so I have control over my destiny or get out and do something else because for me, even though I enjoy show business tremendously, if I have to feel like my wings are clipped, then there are other ways I can make money and be successful, you know.”

“It’s too painful for me to have to commit to a project that I think is frankly beneath me and beneath my talent,” she added.

After finding success on “The Nanny,” Drescher discovered that there were benefits to being different than her fellow actresses, as it helped her reach icon status.

“I think finding projects that fit me hand-in-glove. When you’re unique or off-beat or not ordinary, not easily palatable, it’s going to be a fast yes or a fast pass. There’s really not a lot of wiggle room,” she explained. “And so I think that getting – you know, it’s interesting because the people that have been really creative and talented people have wanted to work with me. They saw what I was about.”

“It’s the mediocrity that really doesn’t know what kind of box to put me into,” added Drescher. “And that’s the majority of the industry.”

This piece originally appeared in UpliftingToday.com and is used by permission.

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