When I was a kid, the idea of gettin' paid to paint your face... listen, I grew up in Ossining, New York, a nice little town by the Hudson, and nothin' ever interested me except being your usual high school big shot, which I was an' loved it, played all the sports and goofed around, always out on the street with the guys, everything was funny t'me.

I was a street-guy villain. I was a street-corner villain. I was an illiterate villain. All rough edges.

Sometimes I was in school plays, but only when the kid they'd originally picked got sick and they asked me to substitute.

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