I love performing in a good straight play as well and I'm a crossover actor, I crossover from plays to musicals, musicals to plays. This is very difficult for performers.
I wanted to have a normal childhood. Normal relationships.
I was totally devastated for four years in the mid '60s when l tried to buck the tide.
I wanted to go to regular high school- it looked like a lot of fun.
Acid wasn't getting a whole lot of bad press at the time, and as I saw the whole bad-press thing happen, I became aware that the government had done a whole lie on all the other benign drugs as well. It became clear to me that the government wanted no real drug education.
There was this little shaggy dog on it, and Frank Weatherwax was working the dog. One day we were all sitting around, and Frank said, listen, my brother Rudd just got the rights back from MGM for Lassie, and said have your agent check into it. I did, and I went for a screen test.
It was the worst period of my life. I had all this gigantic acceptance as a kid, and all of a sudden there was this monumental rejection.
Man's inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.
Holland is a land of intense paradox. It is quite impossible, but it is there.
I just love the feeling from the fans and when I'm walking on deck I can hear people screaming and wishing you the best. That puts you into the game more than anything.
God is the hardest taskmaster I have known on this earth and He tries you through and through.