I never planned on being an actor. My dreams were always about sport: volleyball, surfing, and especially football. The film industry was nothing I ever really thought about. A football star at Santa Monica High, I planned to get a degree, play professional football.
After graduating from Santa Monica High School in 1984, I was offered 17 athletic scholarships, all of which I turned down in favor of Princeton University, where I majored in history - played in the football team, and was even signed to play for the Buffalo Bills. Three days before my first preseason game, I suffered a knee injury that ended my NFL career. Back in California, rehabilitating from surgery, I began writing again. And the rest is, well, history.
