I was under contract to Paramount. They wanted to make me into somebody which I was not. So I got so scared and rebelled, so they threw me out of the studio.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I really wanted to go onstage. Not movies. But I ended up under contract to Paramount. Now I adore film work.
The thing is, the studio then forget that you're an actor and that you can do other things, and so since they pay you for that, they don't want you to do anything else.
We were all ruled by the studio system. I signed a contract for seven years.
Don't forget, I've been fired by studios; I'm not the studio's guy. I'm a guy who can work with studios, but if you ask any studio, I stand up to these people.
In the old days the studios guided your career. Now it's all up to you.
I formed my own studio, carried my own deficits, owned one-hundred percent of my negatives, and made a lot of mistakes, but we ended up being the third largest TV studio in Hollywood.
My movies are not messed with by the studios.
I was in an awful lot of trouble in Hollywood.
I was sitting in the looping studio late one night, and I had this epiphany that they weren't paying me for my acting, for God's sake, but to own me. And from then on, it became clear and an awful lot easier to deal with.
I was an original member of the Actors' Studio.