Which Happy Days actor initially turned down the role because he didn't want to "be a teenager the rest of [his] life"?

Ron Howard at first passed on playing Richie, saying "I don't want to be a teenager the rest of my life." But he was able to be convinced when Garry Marshall promised him that he and his friends would become adults on the show, and have a life post high-school.

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