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I was into acting as a kid. There was a time when I was 18 that I played the boy in a production of 'Equus' in Oregon, and I thought that was going to be my life.

My first year and a half in Hollywood, I did three films. Then in 1959, I was in 'Gidget,' 'Imitation of Life' and 'A Summer Place.' After that, I was a star. It was fun.

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 always wanted to be in movies.

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

I can't even remember when I first went, 'I want to be an actress.' It's always been inside of me.

I was in the movies. I danced, I sang, I learned to work in front of a camera. It was like being in a repertory company.

I'd been an actor in high school, and when I got to college, it was all about film.

I did a lot of theater growing up, and in college I was in the musical 'Chicago.'

In the the late seventies and early eighties, I played background roles in thirty movies... Woody Allen movies, Scorsese films, you name it. Whatever was being shot in New York, I was doing stand-in and background work because I wanted to be close to the camera; I wanted to see what was going on.