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I sang a lot in college - I was in a choral group in college. But, then, when I moved to New York, I really just concentrated on acting.
My mother felt it was time that I had some parental control, so I went off to America and went to New York.
I did not have any money, so when I came to New York, I just dressed myself with whatever I could find and the Army-Navy store.
I wanted to make it in New York. I thought if I went out to the Midwest, I'd be burying myself. But I was wrong.
You know, it's recently come into focus for me why I want to be an actor: It's because of the connection I feel to people.
Juan Hernandez was an actor out of New York, but what made Juan so great and what made Omar so great was that they both already knew how to box, so we didn't have to take them into a gym and teach them how to throw a left jab.
I grew up in Connecticut, going in and out of New York City, and I worked in the city in the '90s. I was freelancing for the Associated Press, and I fell in love with New York.
I read the 'New Yorker' when I was a kid. I used to love the cartoons and pick the cartoons out of the library, so I felt I knew the world of their cartoons.
When I was skating I felt I represented not just my family and the people who helped me make it to that point, but also New York and the country.
