It’s always great to play a man who sets himself up to be punctured.
I moved out to LA, got an agent, started auditioning. I didn’t know anything about how it worked. And since I was really bad, luckily, I didn’t get any of those parts.
Acting is about playing different parts and embracing the opportunity to experience new things.
I was asked to act when I couldn’t act. I was asked to sing ‘Funny Face’ when I couldn’t sing, and dance with Fred Astaire when I couldn’t dance – and do all kinds of things I wasn’t prepared for. Then I tried like mad to cope with it.
If you want something from an audience, you give blood to their fantasies. It’s the ultimate hustle.
I didn’t go to acting school, but I’ve been observing my fellow man for 66 years now, and I would think that’s the best school there is.
I don’t have the energy or the mental security to get involved with all that. I think it’s a good idea to be able to disappear into the story, so that the first thing the audience sees isn’t you, but the part.
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