The first thing my agent told me in 1959 was he said you have to have something recognizable that people will remember. "What are you? Do you have cleft in your chin? You have a Jimmy Stewart kind of talk?" And I thought I don't know what I can give them that will be different.
In all honesty my cake was baking when I met Al - I had made up in my mind already to get physically healthy. He refreshingly was on his own journey so it was almost as if we walked together.