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When I moved to Los Angeles, I was cooking with two guys who became celebrity chefs, if you will. I became their sous chef for awhile. We'd go to all the big names in Hollywood.

I have a big box of autographs. I took photographs of me and Marlene Dietrich, me and Ida Lupino. I took pictures of Myrna Loy and Joel McCrea in front of the studios. I loved Hollywood. I have 500 autographs and 500 photographs I took.

I was 9 years old, and this was - well, whenever it was, they paid a thousand bucks. I thought I was going to be rich forever! But I had no thought I would be an actor at that point.

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 never a part of the Actor's Studio, because two friends of mine started it in 1947 and by that time I'd gone to California.

My first film out of the gate was financially so successful that I guess, being in Hollywood, you get kind of put into a certain box.

I had a brief theater background and loved the backstage world there's more backstage work in television, so I saw a job advertised and applied, and got it. That was back in 1977, when getting jobs was easy.