Biegen / Bending Ding / Thing Echt / Real Gestartet / Started Jahre / Years Mir / Me Ohne / Without Regie / Directing Schauspielkunst / Acting Unterrichtet / Taught Wirklich / Real Thing Wissen / Knowing Zu / Toward
The first real thing I heard was Three O'Clock Blues by B.B. King. That's where it all began for me.
I started styling people when I was just eight years old, without even knowing what a stylist was.
I never really think of acting and directing as being separate; they are just different expressions of the same thing.
The thing about dancing - what it taught me all those years - is it gives you an amazing sense of discipline in forcing yourself to do things that you know are good for you but you don't really want to do.
I wouldn't trade those 10 years for anything. The Navy taught me a lot of things. It molded me as a man, and I made a lot of wonderful friends.
If we're still talking about the same thing 40 or 50 years later, then that means we're not doing anything about it.
It was tough for me at school... trying to blend in and get along with other kids. I was an oddity and kids are scared of things they don't understand.
We start out as sand and soot out there in the universe, and who knows, in 40 trillion years' time we might come back. But if we come back without memory, it doesn't really interest me.
I'm 64 years old, and I've been acting now for 42 years. Only recently have I thought to myself, 'Hmmm, it may be interesting to start directing.'
