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" I've produced more pilots than United Airlines, and they've all been disasters. Every audition I ever took in my life I lost. "

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" In high school, I weighed 175 to 180. I looked like Abraham Lincoln. I was 6-foot-3, biggest thing in the class, but tall, not fat. "

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