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

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 like to morph reality into the theatrics.

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?

if money were not an issue.

Never ask of money spent Where the spender thinks it went. Nobody was ever meant To remember or invent What he did with every cent.