After a year or so I really thought I was Howard Hughes. Here I was at eighteen years old, getting all these checks.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Howard Hughes was obsessed with me. But at first it seemed as if he were offering me a superb career opportunity.
The Howard Hughes I knew began to change after his plane crash in 1941.
By the time I am Howard's age I hope to be long retired. I don't plan on working that long.
I was signed at 18 and had to grow up quickly.
In the last 17 years of his working life, my father was finally rewarded with having landed a great job as first, a maintenance engineer, and then a senior locksmith with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
If you watch any John Hughes film of the eighties, that was my childhood experience.
I had a job since I was old enough to work - since I was, like, 14.
I had a 20-year, stellar government career.
I think I was pigeonholed pretty early on. And I started late in my career. I was 33.
In the years since I worked with John Hughes, there were many years where I literally had hundred of doors slammed in my face because I wasn't that kid anymore, and I wasn't a character actor, and I wasn't a leading man, and I wasn't whatever Hollywood was looking for.