My parents actually wanted me to join the service.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
My parents really encouraged me.
It's always been a desire of mine to work with my parents.
My parents made me believe I could do anything I wanted to do. They were really into empowering me.
I didn't want my parents to support me. I wanted to prove that I could do it by myself.
My parents wanted me to go to law school.
My parents taught me service - not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.
My parents wanted me to become a national athlete.
I saw how hard my parents worked, and I didn't want to be a freeloader.
So when I told my parents I wanted to go into acting because I was flunking out of my first year of junior college, they were relieved that I had picked something other than joining the army. But I can't imagine how they had high hopes for me.
I think my mom and dad knew from the very beginning that I was destined to go into public service.