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.
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I'd been an actor in high school, and when I got to college, it was all about film.
When I was young, all I wanted to be was a movie star. At a certain point, I started to grow up and really care about what I did.
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 didn't start out to be a movie star. I started out to be an actor.
I had been working early in my life in films - since I was 11.
I went to film school at Columbia and did that for a couple years and really thought I was going to be a filmmaker, and then I kind of drifted over to the acting side after that. I'd been an actor in high school, and when I got to college, it was all about film.
I did years of summer stock. I sort of only wanted to be an actor. And then at 19, I was funny, and I had some of these bits that I did for friends, and I immediately could get on television.
The whole year I was in LA I got into telemarketing and learned how to make money. Five years later that skill helped me make my first film.
I was in Woody Allen's Stardust Memories in 1980. It was only a bit part and I didn't get to speak but I felt that I was in a real movie and heading where I had always wanted to be.
I first decided to become an actor at school. A teacher gave us a play to do and that had a major impact. At first, I wanted to work in the theatre, but there was something about the ambience of film, especially American films, that always attracted me.
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