When I was younger I saw a movie called 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' with Paul Newman and Robert Redford. Those two actors and that movie was my inspiration to want to be an actor.
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I knew I wanted to become an actor when I was 7 years old. My dad was working with Alfred Hitchcock, my mom was working with Martin Scorsese - and it was the great summer of my childhood.
I wanted to be an actor when I was a kid.
I didn't really make up my mind to be an actor until I did 'The Hitcher' with Rutger Hauer. I was about 17 or 18 when I did that, by which point I'd probably done a dozen or more movies or TV things, but 'The Hitcher' was the experience that made me want to study and commit and learn how to do this for my life.
I was a kid who went to film school and fell into acting.
Ever since I was a kid, I always wanted to be an actor.
I got to act with my childhood film idol, Robert Redford, and that's a gift in itself.
I wanted to star in a western opposite Robert Redford. That was my plan for my life.
You know, I really wish now I'd had the nerve to become an actor. Because I'd have been Robert Redford, no question.
I was never really a character actor - I was a leading man who was always cast as a character. I wanted to be Jack Nicholson or Jean Gabin.
My introduction to acting was through theatre, so I actually saw a couple of Broadway shows that made me want to be an actor.
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