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I know what my dharma is: I'm supposed to be an actor.

As a businessman, my dharma is to cater to every taste of my viewer.

And as a character, what I found very inspiring about playing Dharma, especially at that time, is that the women on television were more neurotic than they were free. And I thought, this is a rare bird and this is unique on television and I think it's really refreshing.

With 'Taxi Driver,' I had this eureka moment. I realized that acting could be much more than what I had been doing. I had to build a character that wasn't me.

I was walking in the park and this guy waved at me. Then he said, 'I'm sorry, I thought you were someone else.' I said, 'I am.'

I had a soap opera, and my next job was working with Kyle McLachlan on The Invisible Man.

I followed a girl I met in Japan to Los Angeles and ended up working in a motorcycle store. I quit the job one night, went to a party in the Hollywood Hills and ended up yelling at a bunch of people. Someone saw me yelling and asked me to be in a play. The first night, there was an agent in the audience who took me on and sent me out for jobs.

I met Robert Rodriguez working on a movie called 'Roadracers.'

The director sent for me for Tarzan. I climbed the tree and walked out on a limb. The next day I was told I was an actor.