I had had a father whose shoes I could never fill, against whom I would never measure up; yet, I felt no pressure do so.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I didn't feel a specific pressure to prove myself because I had an actor in the family. I didn't feel that pressure to fill some big shoes or anything.
My father was truly a great man. I remember one day putting my feet in my father's shoes. I was amazed at the size. Would I ever be big enough to fill his shoes? Could I ever grow into the man my father was? I wondered.
I didn't try to copy my dad or fit into the pressure or the mold that everybody tried to make me fit into.
Pressure is something you feel when you don't know what the hell you're doing.
People say I am the king of painful shoes.
One thing my dad always told me, was he would make sure I always had what he didn't have. He couldn't play basketball because he didn't have tennis shoes - so I had five pairs of tennis shoes.
I think sometimes I don't realise how much the pressure gets to me.
I'm not a goody-two-shoes. I'm just a father with four children.
I no longer run barefoot.
I was a barefoot earth child for a couple of years.