Growing up, I think I was arrested 20-odd times by the Boston police. The good news is that I've been able to use those experiences in a lot of my roles, and that has been a blessing.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
By the time I was 23 years old, I had multiple arrests.
This may surprise you, but I was arrested in high school.
I've been arrested many times for illegal high wire walking and illegal street performing.
I was arrested three times and tortured once.
The most experience I had in the criminology field is playing a thug as an actor. That was my first paid job. The police academy at the college was paying people to reenact the calls that potential cops would get. So I got to play thugs and people who were unruly.
I've never been arrested. I've been stopped, searched and had a gun put to my head by the Chicago cops.
I studied the philosophy and the discipline of non-violence in Nashville as a student. And I staged a sitting-in in the fall of 1959 and got arrested the first time in February 1960.
It sounds kind of strange, but Jail time was almost a good experience for me.
I was a good little boy and a good student. I've never been arrested.
I remember my first run-in with cops. It took me really getting to hang, well after that, with cops who were cool, and realizing, 'Okay, there are some bad ones.' I ran into some bad ones in Columbus, Ohio, but they're not all bad.