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I never wanted to look back on my career and be embarrassed about work that I chose to do.

I try not to look back on my career.

I never felt my career was going backwards.

In my first few years as an actor, I took one terrible TV job after another. But even as I laughed off my awful roles and made fun of myself to friends, my work made me cringe - I dreaded anyone's seeing it. I was crushed that I wasn't doing anything I was proud of.

I resented that my career wasn't going the way that it was supposed to. And I was angry that I wasn't getting the parts that I wanted.

I never felt a need to manipulate my career from the outside - try to be someone I wasn't to get ahead.

I didn't want to lose my sense of myself in my profession.

I did it my way, and I have no regrets when I look back on my career that it was just a big focus for me.

I've never taken a job on anything I didn't want to do.

I never contemplated any kind of existence or identity after my career. I never thought at some point the entertainment industry is going to be through with me. And when it first occurred to me that my career was going to cease to be ascendant, then I freaked out.