When I was 21 or so, and I started to grow my hair - this was maybe two years before 'Wayne's World' - they were like 'What are you doing ... You're such the all-American guy.' But I would go in and read for these parts, and it never excited me to play the guy who doesn't have any sort of point of view and edge,
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