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My First Language Was Shy. It's Only By Having Been Thrust Into The Limelight That I Have Learned To Cope With My Shyness.

Any Project That I Find Encouraging That Isn't Attached To A Studio, I Can Go To Them, Which I Definitely Would. You Have To Take An Interest In What You Do.

I Like, For Instance, 'serpico.' I Enjoyed Playing Serpico Because Frank Serpico Was There. He Existed. He Was A Real Life Person And I Could - I Could Embody Him. I Could, You Know, I Could Work And Get To Know Him And Have Him Help Me With The Text, The Script And Become Him. It's Almost Like A Painter Having A Model To Become.

Many Years Ago, In The Late '70s, I Toured Colleges Along The East Coast And I Presented A Kind Of Show Where I Got A Lot Of Books And Poetry And Pieces Of [william] Shakespeare And Other Writers That I Admire, Read It To The Class And Then Afterward We Would Talk And I Would Answer Questions. It Was Really A Way Of Expressing And Finding Out About Where I Was At That Particular Time, So It Was Very Therapeutic For Me.

Sometimes The Only Way You Can Get An Audience Is At An Audition.