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Hook: A Personal Narrative Of My Life

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"I think the saddest people always try their hardest to make people happy because they know what it's like to feel absolutely worthless and they don't want anyone else to feel like that."
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I was born in the great city of Chicago, Illinois on July 21, 1951. I would describe myself as short, shy, chubby, and lonely as a child. Kids would never play with me because of those reasons so I would talk to myself in funny voices as a form of entertainment. Although I also credit my mom for my sense of humor too. Even in high school I was voted "Most humorous" but also "Least likely to succeed."
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I've won 55 awards out of 67 nominations. Two of my movies (Jumanji and The Birdcage) both reached a total of $100 million in the same week. Not many actors and actresses can claim to have achieved the same thing.Three of the movies that I was in were awarded an Oscar for Best Picture.

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Of course I've made many famous friends along the way like my best friend Christopher Reeves who was my college roommate and best known for his role of Superman. When he suffered from a serious injury landing him in the hospital I came into the room as a Russian doctor and was the first to make him laugh. That says a lot considering he fell off a horse which made him fracture his neck and ended his career in 1995.
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I'm a huge rugby fan and have visited New Zealand with my wife many times. That's where a met Lomu who is part of the Rugby Union. You can see many pictures of me sitting on his shoulders which shows how tall he really is.
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