I always wanted to be an actor, even when I…

I always wanted to be an actor, even when I was a little kid. When I used to run away from home, I’d go to movies and sit all night watching Kirk Douglas. When I was 16, I tried getting into the Actors Studio and they told me to get lost. I said ‘I’ll come back when I’m a man,’ and I came back when I was 30. I went to sea, I traveled the world… I was waiting.

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