I worked in a lot of restaurants. Busing, mostly. I was a food runner. I was an extra on soap operas. An extra on commercials. Typical actor, huh? I delivered burritos by bicycle. All that stuff. My last real job was delivering food for this trendy restau...
[On why he was fired from G.I. Jane (1997)]: I gave them no alternative, because I didn`t want to learn how to scuba dive. I wouldn`t mind learning in the Bahamas, but I didn`t want to learn at three o`clock in the morning.
I did the odd bit of theater from the age of ten, but I spent most of my time doing the usual teenage things - you know, thinking I was black, trying to break dance and smoking a lot of dope.
After a while, you stop thinking that the film you`re in is going to be your big break. I mean, I was sure that the TV show I did in 1989 was going to make me.
Stage is where it really happens for an actor because it makes full use of whatever you have to give.
