The first several years I was an actor, I sort of eked out a living playing thugs almost exclusively until 'Robocop.'
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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 was a kid who went to film school and fell into acting.
I never was that boy who loved gangster films, but when I was growing up, I was obsessed with the detective Dick Tracy. It was one of my favourite movies as a kid, and he really inspired me. I would have loved to be part of that golden age of Hollywood in the 1940s. It made me want to become an actor.
I started as a director and just fell upon acting.
When I first started out, I was a bad actor.
I suppose when I was a kid, and I went to movies, and later went to some plays on my own when I got a little older, in New Orleans, where I was living then, I zeroed in on the actor.
When I started out I was a failed actor.
I've been an actor since I was a kid.
I didn't start acting until I was in college, which was in the 70's.
Even after 'Gangster' being a success, I was considered a B-grade actress and was a sidekick, even though I was good at what I did, and was jobless for two years.