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I came out to California to live with my mom in Orange County for a while, and then I came up to Hollywood. I had just turned nineteen. I took an acting class at Playhouse West and decided, 'Wow, I think I can do this!' I studied really hard for three years before I got an agent.

I moved here to California when I was 13 to pursue my acting career.

Toward the end of school I started watching movies. Got a job in a movie theater in Brookline, Massachusetts.

I was never a part of the Actor's Studio, because two friends of mine started it in 1947 and by that time I'd gone to California.

My dad signed me up for some acting classes at a place in Honolulu, and there I got to audition for some L.A.-based talent agents. I got a few 'callbacks' and so my mom and I decided to fly to California and check it out!

I had just arrived in New York from California. I was nineteen years old and excited beyond belief. I was an art student and an acting student and behaved as most young actors did - meaning that there was no such thing as a good actor, 'cause you yourself hadn't shown up yet.

I was born and raised in Queens and moved into the city as a young adult. Then I ended up acting and decided to run off to California.

I was a kid who went to film school and fell into acting.

I didn't go to L.A. because I wanted to move to California. I went to L.A. to work as an actor.