Acting Is An Escape From

I Have Been Vain Since Birth.

After Being In One Movie, It Didn't Seem Like That Would Be My Life. I Had Done Several Jobs, Briefly. I'd Been A Shipping Clerk, I Worked In A Copy Shop, I Didn't Think The Acting Was Going To Go On And On.

For Some Reason, People Find Me Funny. It's Quite Hard To Define Why A Thought Is Funny. It's Even Harder To Define Why A Person Would Be Funny. It's A Word That I Can't Define At All. But Whether I Know Quite What It Is Or Not, I Seem To Be It.

If My Relation To Each And Every Peasant In Cambodia Is Indeed Exactly What The Principles Of Morality Would Demand It To Be, It's A Miraculous Coincidence, Because It Takes A Lot Of Effort To Behave Correctly In Regard To My Friends, And From One End Of The Year To Another I Never Give Those Peasants A Single Thought.

I Started Writing Plays In Around 1967, And At A Certain Point, I Thought, 'i'm Writing Plays, I Should Learn About Acting And What It Is.' So I Went To The Hb Studio In New York, And I Was There For About Nine Months.