I've had those periods in my career when I was sitting around waiting for a phone call and had an agent who was doing the same thing rather than going out there to shake the bushes looking for a job for me. It's a frustrating game, that's the downside of this business - the rejection.

My family is all from the Southwest. My great-great-grandfather was at the Battle of San Jacinto with Sam Houston.

Looking back on the long haul in my career, little films, big films, TV, the Western thing has been really good to me.

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