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In Italy, I had an Afro, and a lot of the kids came up and felt my hair. It really was funny. I wish I had understood Italian. |
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I always, always liked children... I was very afraid of them before. Because I never really grew up, I mean, with a lot of little kids around. Even though I am from a kind of Italian family, I never really grew up with a lot of little kids around.- Steve Burns
When I came to Los Angeles, it was the first time that I ever felt like I belong somewhere. Not because it was wacky, but because people here understood what I felt like to perform, and there were other kids my age who wanted to do it. I didn't get looked at as God, you freak.
We were raised in an Italian-American household, although we didn't speak Italian in the house. We were very proud of being Italian, and had Italian music, ate Italian food.
The anger that Uncle Junior has comes from my background. My father was the son of an Italian immigrant, and I have seen the fire of the Italian temperament. It can be explosive sometimes in ways that are both funny and tragic.
Here's the thing - I am single, I haven't been married, I do not have kids yet. If I do have kids I would be interested to see them in my life, so here's a movie for kids and I am in there and I am supposed to be kind of funny for kids.
