I went on tour in the play H.M.S. Pinafore.

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I don't like the way Uncle Junior dresses. He loves it.

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I think Pirandello had something to say to people about what truth really is.

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The radio was my big influence. Comedy came from the instinctual feel I had for language.

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I enjoyed my grandparents very much. My mother and father would always allow me to stay with them.

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When I started really singing I was 17, 18 years old. I used to go around trying to be a singer in the Bronx. My knees would shake but I learned by doing.

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For TV I don't think I could have gotten a better part than Uncle Junior because of the intimacy of the character based on David Chase's brilliant writing.

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I had to audition for the part of Jnior, and I wanted the role terribly because I knew it was a great character. This guy is a wonderful, funny, mean old guy.

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Uncle Junior is a criminal, which makes him a villain, so it makes people want to watch him. My whole life as an actor has been preparing for something like this.

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I went to Brooklyn College and met this beautiful Jewish girl named Merle, with dark hair, exotic looking and brilliant. So we got married and had three children.

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