When I was about 5 I think, I desperately wanted to be a pirate and have the hat and everything.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I have been interested in pirates since I was about 8 years old. The idea of people deciding, sometimes at a moment's notice, to throw over the rules and restrictions of society - it was just irresistible.
I sailed a bit as a child, but it wasn't until I was around 40, when I was halfway through Patrick O'Brian's 'Master and Commander' novels, that I had the sudden epiphany that I had to go sail on a square-rig ship.
When I was a child, I wanted to raise horses in Wyoming or be a cabin boy on a pirate ship.
If you want to get my attention, wear a pirate outfit.
As I've grown - dare I say it - older, I had hopes of indulging my dreams of being a sailor.
Since I was 10 years old, I knew I wanted to sail around the world.
I don't really know much about pirates, or pirate culture. I'd be a contrarian pirate.
I have a ship's bed, which totally plays to my obsession of, if I were not an actress, I would be a pirate.
I think that pirates represent every person's ability to get up and leave their current daily situation and go on an adventure, and maybe to see things and do things they've never done before or even dreamed of doing.
I played cops and robbers and pirates and all the rest when I was a kid, but I didn't want to grow up and be an actor and play cops and robbers and pirates. I wanted to grow up and be that, be cops and robbers and pirates.