When I got to Hollywood, at first I couldn't get a lot of jobs. So I grew a beard and look like a really bad Arab, and I started to get a lot of work because that's what they want.
I started off playing the clarinet, after I was inspired by listening to my dad's Benny Goodman records.
Poverty should not be viewed by us as a humiliation and even less so as a position of honour or a fatality.

