I used to come up with these crazy jobs to try and provoke my parents but they said, 'You can be anything you want.' So I was like, 'I want to be a garbage man' and they were like 'That's OK, we'll still love you!'
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Growing up, I knew you were supposed to have a profession - and something better than being a shopkeeper, which is what my parents were.
The previous generation paved the way for my generation to gallop unheeded into jobs previously reserved for men.
My parents have always done what they've loved, and they've had many different careers.
Looking around, I saw so many unhappy adults, people who loathed their jobs, and I didn't want to be one of them.
Starting out, they told me: 'You're a good-looking guy. We'll put you in this role, and you can be a conduit for the audience into this side of the story.' But I've grown up, and that's not what I want anymore. My concept of the job I do has evolved. And it is a job, nothing more.
My job is to bring out in people what they wouldn't dare do themselves.
My first job, which I had to take when not more than fifteen, was assistant to a fruit peddler. It seemed all right to me until a little girl told me snootily, 'We never deal with peddler!' Thereupon I resigned, ashamed of what I was doing.
I see a lot of people who love their jobs. I see some garbage collectors smiling as they go about their work.
I told my parents I wanted to be an actor, and they were getting ready for a life of unemployment, so they're just happy I'm in work!
My parents had job jars because my father would say, 'Kids today have too much time, too much money and no responsibility. You're going to have no time, no money and a lot of responsibility.'