I remember when I was a kid, with the acting thing, I resented it because, you know, you don't want to do what your parents want you to do.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Well, acting was just in me and I tried to avoid it. I didn't want to do what my parents did, you know?
My parents made certain I had no illusions about acting. To them, it was always just a job.
When I was a teenager I loved acting, but I really just loved it for myself. I didn't like the fact that anyone else saw the work I was doing. When I moved to New York, I started to realize that I wanted people to see the stuff that I was doing, and I wanted it to mean something to them.
I actually made an effort to reject acting, to shove it out of my body, because I didn't want my kids to have an actress as a mother-to have, like, a silly person.
I wasn't into acting when I was a kid. Maybe because I was shy or it didn't occur to me.
I thought acting was what grownups did. It was such a part of my childhood. I was already in love with performing before I knew there were other options. By then, it was too late.
I can't take much pride in my childhood acting. It feels like it happened in another lifetime, and even then, it felt like a hobby.
I tried acting, liked it, and stuck with it. I saw it as the way I would keep that promise to myself of getting back at those who had made my school life a misery.
I have no complaints with the whole childhood acting thing, because I wanted to do it.
I loved acting as a kid because I was kind of shy, so it brought me out of myself.