American - Actor | June 5, 1941 - January 11, 2004
I knew I couldn't live in America, and I wasn't ready to move to Europe, so I moved to an island off the coast of America - New York City... It was tolerant. It was a place that tolerated differences and could incorporate them and embrace them, which was what America was supposed to be about and wasn't.
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I think of my father and how confused he was by me. He understood my love for theater, and he understood that New York City was the only place that it was happening in America, really, in any live way.
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I'm basically a fearful person. I'm a phobic person.
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I may look like an American WASPy doctor or lawyer, but I feel just like Woody Allen. Don't cast me for my looks - I have a very ironic, existential, crazy Jew in me.
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When Mom had her first nervous breakdown, she said she had a vision of Christ coming to her in the living room.
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I'm the man who sits behind a table and tells true stories from his life. I'm also an actor. I was trained as an actor at Emerson College, and I use that training to play myself.
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When I first came to New York City in 1967, I joined up with Richard Schechner's Performance Group - where we worked in the Performing Garage in SoHo.
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Radio allowed me to be a creator, and TV stole that creation from me by literalizing - and to some extent limiting - my vision.
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When people used to ask me why I got involved with Hollywood films, I would say jokingly that it was for the health insurance.
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