It took me a long time to figure out how to act, and how to conduct myself in the business so I could get what I felt I needed to support my potential and give them what they wanted.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I took some me time. I think that's a really important thing to do for yourself, especially in this business. And now I feel like I'm in a really good, positive place in my life.
It's taken me a long time to get back into the industry. People were not really open to me working, or being a part of the industry.
When I started working, I didn't have a clue what I was doing, in that I was just wandering around, hoping that I could succeed. Then after I got a little under my belt, it took me about 25 years to feel like I knew what I was doing.
I had to create some good work habits and attitude.
My first sales assessment, they tell you your strong points, and they told me I was the emotional salesman, the one who could really connect with people by making them feel comfortable. Once someone told me that, I couldn't get past how manipulative it made me feel.
When I came into the business, things changed a lot, and my life was in a real state of flux.
I wanted to direct more than I wanted to act. And I found I couldn't do everything.
It took a long time to get to the place in my career where I could pick and choose what I wanted to do.
I had some things I had to fix. It took me 14 years to do it. But it was never really fun back in the day to work with directors who were a lot older and were like authoritarian and talking to you like that.
It didn't take long to establish myself, as far as people thinking my work was good. They liked it from the start.