I wanted to be a mechanic. When I was 14 I wanted to quit school and go work on my car. But my dad said Son, you shouldn`t do that. You should stay in school until your education is finished, and when you`re done, don`t make your hobby your job.
When I go on the plane to fly home, I`m literally capable of forgetting what I do for a job. That also comes about because I choose to take massive breaks between projects, and because I choose to do this ridiculous thing of keeping home, home.
Early, it was Richard Pryor. I did stand-up for 10 years before acting. And the movie Mad Max (1979). It cemented in my mind that I wanted to be an actor. [on his influences to become an actor]
I deliberately fly in and out of LA for as small a time as humanly possible.
