I like to morph reality into the theatrics.

In the eighth grade I found I had a voice for opera, so I followed that path a little, but my impulse has always been an actor. I have always liked cinema, and let's face it, opera singers are just bad actors! I didn't want to translate myself in that direction.

I heard a little bit of his frustration. I wanted to make a social statement. How do people reinvent themselves when they can't do what they've been doing all their lives? How do they survive?

I said, 'Chazz, there's no money and no part,' ... (But) we had tremendous laughs.

At the other end of this, who's going to be taking as serious any commitments that are made? The reality is nobody is going to sign up for anything that will serve the public's interest until afterwards.

Sometimes I feel like I'm a contestant in a reality show that probably would be called The Apprentice Survivor Millionaire.