The day after we had pitched a game, it was our duty to stand at the gate, and afterwards to count the tickets. I remember counting 30,000 tickets one day at the Polo Grounds in New York.
Selling tickets at the Bing Theater at LACMA was my first job in L.A.
My own experience with trains dates to long-ago childhood trips with my family in Mississippi to see my grandmother off at the station in Jackson, bound for Memphis.
Movie theatre gives a soulful experience.
The only acting I knew when I was a boy came from Lochgelly. With a double bill, people would live their lives in the cinema. You would even see babies being breastfed in the audience.
I went to the carnival a lot. The carousel was my favorite ride as a kid.
If you want to go out and see a movie and sit in a dark room with strangers, it's not an experience you can replicate at home.
My dad had a movie theater so I was there every night.
