- His uncle is celebrated artist Dean Konopisos and grandson of RADM Konstantine Konopisos JAG.
- Played NCAA basketball and baseball for the University of Dallas.
- Founded and ran the former Konstantine Foundation - a government recognized non-profit charity organization.
- Related to legendary film actor Gregory Peck through his maternal grandmother Arlene Peck.
- Became friends with legendary character actor Charles Durning after directing him in "The Waiter.".
- Created his own acting methodology, which he calls "Exiphen" which emphasizes the use of imagination built on a foundation of intense research and a deep Existential - Phenomenological understanding of human motivations and interpersonal dynamics.
- Related, by marriage, to actor and assassin John Wilkes Booth.
- He briefly took classes for a law degree, but decided he did not want to be a lawyer.
- At age 10, he adopted a stray kitten and named it Muff Potter after a character in Huckleberry Finn. Muff Potter remained his trusted friend for 22 years.
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