I had spent many years before I was 31 hearing people tell me, Oh Man, you're so funny, you need to be in television. But that and a quarter won't get you on a bus.
I was working at a phone company. I got tired of my life and wanted to change it, so I did.
I've had a lot of people tell me they wish I were their principal.
In movies, I have had the opportunity of working with some of the people that I respect very much.
It is a different genre-a show about something other than doctors, lawyers and cops. Teachers are something completely different. I think it makes for very interesting television.
Let's be real: It's just TV; it's just entertainment.
None of my checks from Paramount bounced.
Teachers are out there with a very difficult job, which they pursue with tireless dedication.
There is a lot going on in high schools, and I think what we portray is fairly accurate.
When you do features, you spend three months with a character and you get to put him on and take him off, and that is it.
With Boston Public, you create a character and you have to find what their range of emotion will be, what kind of individual you are dealing with.
You have to take some dramatic license just to make it entertaining sometimes.
He wrote the hit song "He's the Champ." the song was parodied during the marriage of boxer Mike Tyson and actress Robin Givens.
He originally planned to pursue a career in music but he finally selected acting.
He joined the blues band Covert and was signed by Esquire Records.
He made his film debut in The Distinguished Gentleman (1992).
He started acting when he was 30 years old.
Chi is married to Katie McKinley. The two have been married since February 1982.
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