so with those 35,000-gallon tanker and hold this big a big boat falls into the take keitel my co-worker i will get it. that is exactly what happened and my coworker says are you crazy? we will vetted be progressive it will take me on it this is what i thought i was in the best physical shape of my life and i went down and i did not make it back out but i did try. as i landed at the bottom of the tank i realized there was no oxygen with all my equipment with big overalls and a lot of tools and start to drop everything i and 18 feet to the ceiling and started to go up and i relate in the book my whole life starts to flash like people talk about a near-death experience. that i came to this country to fight so this is where i end up not without a fight. so to climb that rope little by little was no oxygen in my lungs and i made it to the top and i grabbed apollos he and he relates the story as to how bin he saw in my face that agony but i can almost crut -- crush his head he was asking for help but along that time my father working several road at the same place comes up and he lands right

. >> harvey keitel auditioned 11 times to get in. jack nicholson auditioned five.tion he had seen in 30 years. do you know how many actors applied -- >> that's amazing. what's it like when you hear something like that? >> my acting teacher actually -- i was doing a scene where i had to relate to a father figure and i was about 25 and i hadn't seen my father, my real father since i was 5. so my acting teacher said to me, how badly do you want to get in the actor's studio, and i said i'd cut my arms off. she said, well, you have to go find your father. two nights before i did the scene -- i knew he was upstate new york and i went and looked him up. i went and met him. she said to me, whatever you're going to go through when you see him, keep it inside and don't let it out. >> method acting then. >> they have a thing called method acting that everybody messes up because it's based on the stanis lfrnltsovsky principles. people who call themselves method actors normally don't know a damn thing about what it's all about, you know. they like using the term because of the