I developed a sense of self before moving to crazy Hollywood, which was really important.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Hollywood infected my brain and I really valued the wrong things in life, but I changed dramatically.
When I came out to Hollywood, I was a crazy young kid who didn't have a lot of direction.
My parents and my brothers and their wives are incredible and formed me as a person long before I got to Hollywood.
I made a commitment to myself; that I wanted to be an actress, and I wanted to do films that make a difference. It has to move people.
So I got caught up in the same wave as everybody else and went right out to Hollywood, to make movies.
I stuck around in Hollywood for too long. I was there a long time, and when I left, I was smart enough to realise that what I was leaving was not just the movie business. I wanted to get rid of the whole atmosphere.
Hollywood was not a place I dreamed of getting to. I never could take seriously the obsession people have about being a celebrity or getting to Hollywood - I was born next door.
I feel like I had to learn how to take care of myself and find out what made me happy aside from just making films.
I came from a very normal, un-Hollywood background. My parents provided me with every sort of normal upbringing that they could.
I got too caught up in Hollywood, being so into myself and my image.