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What separates a bad, good, or great actor is the choice in the way he plays the scene. And that usually comes from the actor observations and sensitivities he has in life.

When I started studying acting in 1975, we all were so concerned about becoming good actors with training and doing plays. Nowadays with the young "Hip Hop" generation and the advent of reality TV, everyone thinks that acting is easy, so they say, "I can do that" and unfortunately casting directors enforce that notion by casting them in parts. The respect for the craft is gone with the young generations of today. There are just too many people doing it who aren't good, much less trained!

America is in a very serious moral, political, sexual identity, social and economic decline. I'm just glad I won't be around when it snowballs into something much worse.

[in January 2015] After forty years in show business, I have done scenes with these actors on TV or film: Carol Burnett, Telly Savalas, Robert DeNiro, Dustin Hoffman, Matthew McCanaughey, Kevin Dobson, Christopher Lloyd, Anne Heche, George Clooney, Giancarlo Esposito, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Bill Nunn, Robert Woodward, Woody Harrelson, David Letterman, Luis Guzman, Tony Sirico, Danny Aiello, Sean Connery, Elizabeth Berkley, Jenna Elfman, Sally Kirkland, Josie DeGuzman, Bruce Davison, Jose Perez, John Travalta, Jan Michael Vincent, Teresa Saldana, Rudy Ramos, Art Carney, Frank Pesce, Robert Newman, Joe Penny, Mark Harmon, Carmen Argenziano, Rachel Ticotin, Chuck Norris, Clarence Gilyard Jr., Louis Gossett Jr., Charles Dutton, Khalil Kain, Hill Harper, CC Pounder, Vondie Curtis-Hall, Rick Springfield, Yannick Bisson, Arlo Guthrie, Eric Roberts, Timothy Stack, Jennifer Connelly, Constance Marie, Oliver Platt, Tom Cavanagh, Skip Sudduth, Coby Bell, Dean Winters, Vincent D'Onofrio, Kathryn Erbe, Sara Jessica Parker, Chris Noth, Charles Dzunza, Jerry Orbach, Jesse L. Martin, S. Epatha Merkerson, April Lee Hernandez, Richard Beymer, Jeff Fahey, Eric Close, Paul Lazar, Peter Appel, Jeremy Allen White, Irma Estella LaGuerre, Karen Contreras, Nancy Eng, Moises Acevedo, Max Theriot, John Magaro, Denzel Whitaker, Zena Grey, Emely Meade, Elena Hurst, Shareeka Epps, Dennis Boutsikaris, Abbie Cornish, Oscar Isaac, Donnie Wahlberg, Jennifer Esposito, Nicholas Turturro, tom Selleck, Amy Poehler, Ed Helms, Jemina Kirke, Justin Theroux, Wayne Duvall, Begonia Plaza, Shawn Elliot, Paul Calderone and many more.