Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Tony Cox" in Romanian language version.
I had been playing drums ever since I was two. I started out with pencils. Maybe about three or four years before I got to high school, they stopped the musical program. So I never learned how to read music, but when I got to the high school I played in the school band because all you had to do was remember the beat...It was just drums. But, when you get to college, you have to know how to read music. It wasn't my fault, but because they didn't have it at the school, I couldn't read. That first day, I knew that I was in trouble. All of my other subjects wouldn't have been a problem, but it was just a music thing. I had to think of something else I wanted to do. I used to watch "Wild, Wild West" with this little guy, Dr. Loveless. I had also seen [trailblazing little person actors] Billy Barty and Patty Maloney who were in "The Love Boat," I thought it was a great episode and I [thought] "I know what, I can do this." I had said that just before I went to college. My aunt and uncle had come down just before I went to college. He was saying, "You're too good a musician. You have too much talent to be here. You need to leave and you need to come out and live with me." So, when it didn't work out, that was when I came out and got into acting school, graduated top of the class, and boom.
When I first got to Los Angeles, California, my aunt, she had found this acting school...
As a little person, when you get a chance to be in a film where you're the second lead, that role can make you