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We're raising a generation of kids who are being overly praised for incredibly minor accomplishments. I think it's counter-productive.

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Most of my friends - when I was five, six, seven years old - their dads were working in an auto plant in Detroit until 5:30, and then they were sat in rush hour. They weren't around as much. My dad finished at three o'clock, so he was just around more.

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I was in New York. I had been doing theater for many years, and then I got hired to a little part - they weren't calling it an extra, but I didn't have lines. It was a 'featured' part.

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I was studying music in college. I was singing, I was doing operas and Gilbert and Sullivan operettas, and then I was offered a job as the music director of the Bigfork Summer Playhouse, in Bigfork, Montana.

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Fortunately, for the first 20 years in my career, I didn't have any other responsibilities outside of myself. I didn't have a wife and kids, so I could afford to sort of barely scrape by, to do theater.

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I am who I am. I have a low voice, and I look like somebody's dad or boss or a police chief, and those roles come my way.

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I would like to find, or I would like a part to come to me that is like the part that Dennis Franz was fortunate to be able to play on 'NYPD Blue,' a sort of similar-looking actor to me, a generic, bald white guy who you would often think of as playing the authority figure. But he was the disgruntled middle-man. That would be a fun character.

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If the awards buzz is happening, and it's coming from critics and people in the business and all of that, that's only more good news.

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I do think you need to understand a character's motivation and perspective.

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Whether you need to like a character, I don't think that's necessary in order to portray him.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actor

Born: January 9th, 1955

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