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I don't know why, but I felt as if I was always behind the eight ball, so to speak.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: April 12, 1932 - November 30, 1996

Topics

Speak Know Why Always Ball Behind

At 17, I traveled to Mexico in a lemon yellow Mustang and saved money by bunking down in cheap, cockroach-infested flophouses. In my early 20s, I went on to thumb rides through Europe, readily sleeping in train stations, my backpack as a pillow. Once I even hunkered down for a night on a sidewalk grate - for warmth - in Paris.

Money Yellow Night Early Down Train

I don't get into that second guessing of myself publicly.

Myself Guessing Get Second Publicly

Well, I think probably when I first got in the business, I wasn't thinking of being strictly a character actor. But I knew I wanted to be a working actor, and as the years have gone on, I just naturally evolved into that. Because, y'know, I'm not a leading guy. Never was.

Business Character Think Thinking

I think the reason I was 23 before I ever wrote a song was that I was afraid of testing myself. What would I do if I discovered I didn't have anything to say?

Myself Song Think Say Reason Afraid

I've always loved Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, and I watched the Petty documentary 'Running Down A Dream'. I was directly influenced, it made me want to go write.

Robert Coppola Schwartzman

Me Loved Dream Down Go Want

I took classes and performed and did improv and sketch and wrote sketches and did lights and sound for other people's shows just so I could be around the theater. That was about seven nights a week for seven years.

People Week Lights Sketch Sound

We had to go on and do the work of the court and we did.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Work Go Court Did Had

When my daughter was ill in Great Ormond Street, it was the darkest period of my life.

Life Daughter Great My Life Street

My first camera job was filming workplace safety videos, which involved months of watching and videotaping people doing their jobs. I was hooked - from there, I wanted to know where they lived and the rest of their habits and desires.

Job People Safety Rest Doing Camera

Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want.

Culture People Television Want First

My focus in the training sessions is always about movement to create openings and opportunities. When you don't have the ball, you still need the discipline to know where you should be, who you should be marking, but when we have the ball, it is important to be able to move around.

Philippe Coutinho

Discipline Focus Training You Create

There are thousands of directors in Hollywood.

Penelope Spheeris

Hollywood Directors Thousands

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