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Eric Roberts

Eric Roberts

American actor

Aug 20, 2026

5:16
Is that a series of emails, phone calls?
5:20
We have a very detailed, but... not complicated renewal journey.
5:25
We have a renewal questionnaire.
5:27
It's just like a gravity form.
5:29
And it has, you know, the questions that we want, the questions that we feel like are important.
5:33
The last question is, hey, you know, I see we have your home.
5:36
Where's your auto? Callen calls and you got your home, your auto, your RV and your boat, right? So we created needs boxes.
6:50
If somebody's asking you and they're saying, Eric, we're looking to start our cross-sell process, what's the first piece of advice that you're giving them? I
9:51
Um, how, how did you, first of all, how did you get through that? And secondly, how do you draw off of that, those experiences, to make you such a wonderful actor?
10:00
Well, thank you so much for all, all those kind words.
10:04
Uh, uh, well, um, I thought I invented method acting, 'cause I'm eight years old and I realized I could make myself cry by thinking of something that would make me cry.
10:15
And so I, I thought I invented method acting.
10:18
And, and I, and I, and I told all the older kids about it.
10:21
Like, "Oh, guys, I got a great plan." And I would tell everybody how to do it.
10:25
[laughs]

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17:32
Eric, what do, what do you hope that readers experience from, um, your experiences from drug and s- addictions and recovery? What do you want the readers to take away from this, from your story?
6:59
How did you, first of all, how did you get through that? And secondly, how do you draw off of that, those experiences to make you such a wonderful actor?
7:07
Well, thank you so much for all those kind words.
7:13
I thought I invented method acting because I'm eight years old and I realized I could make myself cry by thinking of something that would make me cry.
7:21
And so I thought I invented method acting.
7:24
And I told all the older kids about it, like, oh, guys, I've got a great plan.
7:29
And I would tell everybody how to do it.
7:34
And I thought it was mine up until I got older and found that it was just sense memory.

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14:39
Eric, what do you hope that readers experience from your experiences from drug addictions and recovery? What do you want the readers to take away from this, from your story?
10:08
With Bob.
10:08
He wrote an incredible screenplay, and then we shot all the stuff up in Vancouver, and we come down to LA.
10:14
We, uh, shot in Vancouver for a month.
10:16
We're down in LA now.
10:17
We had two days off in between.
10:20
I'm living at Paul Jabara's house, which, which is a great big mansion.
10:24
Anyway, in the middle of the night, suddenly somebody's banging on my door.

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15:56
Mm.
19:47
Yes.
19:47
Um, I got, I got offered that part, and then I was sent, it's kind of a script, but more of a novel, that was 300 and some-odd pages long, by Kurosawa.
19:59
It was all descriptive and beautiful.
20:02
Uh, it had these two crazy guys who escaped prison together.
20:06
They're kind of alike, one's milder than the other, but they're kind of the same package, only one's very young and one's, one's, uh, across middle-age.
20:14
And, uh, and, you know, it was good and exciting, but long-winded, hard to read.
20:20
Uh, and th- th- then I said, "I can't give an answer based on this." And they said, "Well, we have a man named Eddie Bunker who's writing the script.

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(laughs)

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