“I was always so vividly the guy Woody wrote, that everybody in the business – casting agents, for instance – would think of me that way,”
He said in a 1997 interview with The Los Angeles Times.The identity I adopted for Woody is difficult to abandon.
In addition to Allen’s motion pictures, Roberts starred in television shows such The Four Seasons, The Lucie Arnaz Show, and Law & Order, Murder, She Wrote, and others.
The award-winning actor considered his lengthy and rewarding career in his 2015 biography, Do You Know Me:
“I’ve never been especially fortunate in card games. I’ve never won a lot of money. However, my life has been very fortunate.
“Unlike many of my pals, who didn’t know what they wanted to become when they grew up, I knew I wanted to be an actor before I got to high school,” he said.