I sometimes found myself more comfortable around my TV family than I did with my own parents and sister.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
There is a great degree of comfort with your family when you're on a TV show.
I was raised by television. It was my first cultural window. It was a constant companion.
My family has always supported me completely and kept me grounded. I never got lost in child Hollywood actor weirdness.
When I grew up, we didn't have a TV, and I think more families today have ambitions of getting out of their environment, such as sending their children to university.
As I get older, I tend to put more into family than I used to.
The fact that my mother was on television every week while I was young was occasionally awkward, and often frustrating.
I grew up in a show business family, so we've always had a great sense of balance, being so close to my parents.
I wasn't able to relate to anyone on TV growing up, so I wanted to bring my own experiences to the screen.
As I got older, I never considered that tons of people were watching me on television every week. I give a nod to my parents for keeping me as normal as I could be in an un-normal adult world.
My family is not at all involved in television, or film, or theatre, or any of it, really.