I was used to getting changed in pub toilets before going on set. Then suddenly I had studios in L.A. advising me on my hair.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I've had some real hair disasters.
I used to be a hairdresser.
I still go to a salon where a gal does my hair, and I don't know if it's because I'm a celebrity but by the time I leave there, we are eating chicken and talking and screaming.
There are times when I flick through magazines and think I'm in danger of becoming a prisoner of my own hair.
When I was a young actor in Vienna, already my hair was falling out at a rapid rate. I went to a doctor, who said hair was like grass: if you mow it, then it grows back stronger. So I went to Brittany, where nobody knew me, and I shaved my head. When it grew back - only the fringes!
Every producer I have met has asked me to change my hair. I have always said 'No.' I finally change it for me... and now everyone in the business is like, 'You have to go back to having brown hair.'
I just thought I would work in a hair salon and do community theater.
So one day, in a fit of trying to do something different, I just dyed my hair dark brown and got my first role a week later, after which I thought: 'People are closed-minded, man! Like a different hair colour changes everything!'
When I cut my hair, the whole sound changed, my style changed.
My hair walks into a room before I do.