[laughing]

One day, reading a newspaper, he read about a great flood.

A great flood, he learned, involved huge amounts of water all of a sudden.

That night, he dreamed that his family was happily thanking him for their fireproof house when suddenly a great amount of water came, and as his family was swept away, he heard them pathetically calling his name.

Next morning, he had all the plumbing removed from the house, as well as all sinks, bathtubs, cups, and sponges.

[laughing]

Still, he worried.

He had taken care of fire and floods, yes, but surely these weren't the only bad things that could happen.

Awesome

... a contract on Law & Order: SVU really soon, um, after that happened, and that caused me to take a job that I stayed with for 11 years.

When I was more of a, a creative person, you know, I was a character actor.

I played all kinds of different wacky roles and things up until that time.

And when I left the show, I had to get that back.

I had to get my identity as a creative actor who immersed himself in characters back.

It was, it took, like, two years for people to remember that I did all those other roles before Law & Order.

Whether it's in front of the camera, behind the camera, on the stage, behind the scenes, what do you think it's going to take to really break through the ne- to the next horizon of people of color, Asian Americans, being out there at scale in front of the camera, on the stage, behind the scenes, just as much as anyone else?

telling a story about that stuff.

The man lived in a one-bedroom efficiency cottage all by himself in a sort of dicey part of town.

One day the man woke up and realized that this was pretty much it for him.

It wasn't terrible, but it wasn't great either, and not likely to improve.

The man was smart enough to realize this, yet not quite smart enough to do anything about it.

He lived out the rest of his days and eventually died the end.

Happy now? the man could see that his therapist was not amused.

blacksmithing.