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When I was young, I was religious.

I was always a God guy.

I was a spiritual kid.

My mother and father told me I was god. I was a good Italian boy who hung out with the same four guys. I was a little god.

I was a very independent teenager.

I first got into acting when I was 14, coming back from a junior high school basketball game. My mom picked me up and she had been mentioning, prior to that, this community production of 'Godspell', a couple towns over. I was reluctant, at first, and she bribed me with some great dinner that was in that town, neighboring the theater.

I was a pretty difficult teenager.

I was a very isolated teenager.

I decided to take God and organized religion seriously, and to reject the secular life which in my teens had looked attractive because it allowed me to act in any way that I wanted.