Of course, in later years, I'd studied acting more than ever before - mostly with the late Stella Adler, who was marvelous! - but in my earlier years, I couldn't afford to do this. ↗
My justification is that most people my age spend a lot of time thinking about what they're going to do for the next five or ten years. The time they spend thinking about their life, I just spend drinking. ↗
And then 45 years later, as I finished my career in the great city of Cleveland, that was another great way to end my career, going to the World Series. ↗