“Men at Work” 10 tonight, TBS

HOLLYWOOD — Though he spent his childhood acting, Danny Masterson breaks the stereotype about former child actors. He lugs no baggage from the experience. “I feel like you’re supposed to be amazing at one thing — I’m not amazing at anything. I wish I was,” he said.

“It drives me crazy. I’m proficient in a lot of things, like I’m a very good athlete, but not an amazing athlete. I’m a good musician, but not a great one. I’m a good DJ, but not an amazing one. I’m a good actor, but not a great one. I’d say I’m a great friend, that’s probably my best thing.”

He made lifelong friends and fans when he played the curly-haired hipster, Steven Hyde, on “That ’70s Show” for eight years.

His life seems typical of child actors: He began performing at 4 and by the time he was 16 he’d logged 150 commercials. His mom served as his manager, and they moved to Los Angeles when he was 17 so he could co-star in “Beethoven’s 2nd,” a palpable hit, which he followed with his own sitcom, “Joe’s Life.”

He says he was never without a job. “If there’s nothing to do, I say, ‘I guess I’ll put some connections together and grab $1 million from the budget financiers and get some good actors and we’ll just go make an indie film. I mean, you can always work,” he said.

That kind of practicality has made Masterson less angst-ridden than most actors. “I’ve never lost my job,” he said. “I love working. I love being on the set. Love the crew members, love the family vibe. It feels like summer camp. I’ve worked with some quote-unquote notorious people, and I’ve never had a problem with them. I get along with everybody.”

He’s proving that once again with his latest sitcom, “Men at Work,” airing on TBS. Masterson plays Milo, one of four buddies who suffer the vicissitudes of life with their own antic sense of humor.

Masterson has little patience with actors whose egos overtake their common sense. “The thing is you’re making art or trying to, or at least trying to entertain,” he said, “so I wouldn’t say my sitcom is an art. But it is entertaining, and it is in the arts. You have a crew that works way harder than you do as an actor. And for everybody to not be enjoying themselves (is foolish) because we’re not all sitting in a desk job or working at a factory where it’s actually WORK. You clock in. You pull a lever 10 hours — that’s work. That’s hard. If you have the mental capacity to do that, then God bless you because we all need that. Some of us don’t. We have our heads in the clouds, so we ended up in the movie business.”

Masterson, 37, is one actor whose cloudy head seems strictly grounded. He occasionally works as a DJ, owns several restaurants (seven or eight at last count) and is married to actress-equestrienne Bijou Phillips, who only works when she wants, and hopes someday to have children.

“I’ve known Bijou since I was 18 and she was 14 or 15, so this relationship came on very naturally. We were friends who would see each other over the course of 10 years. And then we were buddies for a couple of months before, all of a sudden, it got a little more than buddies. It made me a lot happier. Because as fun as being single is, it’s a lot more fun to have someone laying next to you that you trust and love.”

But even their romance took a back seat to Masterson’s pragmatism when it came to the wedding. “We just got married a year and a half ago. We’ve been together for nine years. We canceled four weddings because of work. We were supposed to get married and I booked a job, supposed to get married, I booked a job, supposed to get married in Iceland, and the volcano went off — we just kept postponing it like another year, another year, another year. And then finally I basically had a nine-month window, we grabbed our 80 friends, hopped on a plane to Ireland and spent two weeks in Tipperary, got married and now I wear a ring — it’s great.”