The best part of being on a television series for all those years is that you really get to hone your craft.

I grew up with the television product being old Western serials like Roy Rogers, and John Wayne and Gary Cooper, and many others were my favorites when I was a young person going to films.

Despite what people think of cowboys, they take pride in how they look, and that look is important to them.

I was in love with this character of Ray Krebbs. I wanted the part badly. I had done several Western films in my career at that point and there wasn't much opportunity then to play Western roles on television at that time.

When we did 'Ashta Chamma,' I never thought people will pay money to watch me on screen. I never took myself seriously back then.

No one picked on me for my lunch money. Probably because it was the 1980s and no one had lunch money.

When I graduated college, I remember all I really wanted was to make enough money to have a swimming pool, because I love to swim, to grow my own fruit. I wanted to have a little plot where I could grow my own oranges and make enough money where I could to take two weeks off a year. I figured if I had that, it was game over.

I think what we really need to think about is how do we reimagine the management and movement of money in an era where everyone will have a smartphone.