I was doing everything I could think of to protect my husband and keep him alive.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I had to do what I had to do to keep my family alive. Period.
Just having the camera, being able to pull back from situations and be an observer, it saved my life... I realised I could find these intimate moments and that people trusted me. That, basically, my camera was magic.
I was the oldest of the children in my family. I had to do a lot of diaper-changing and lunch-making. I was taking my little sister to ballet, picking up my brother, sort of being a super-nanny.
Acting probably saved my life. It gave me a home and a safe place to let out all of my emotions and have it be okay.
The toughest part was doing it in front of the world and recognizing that you had gotten to a point where if you didn't do something you were going to die.
Saving people, helping people, is just something I always wanted to do.
Being a good husband and father... that's the most important thing I'm going to do on this earth.
When I was single my career was my life, so everything I did was of grave importance and was greatly disturbing.
I had to jump on the tractor and do my chores. I would have just killed to be in town, to be able to Rollerblade hand-in-hand with somebody I had a crush on. I just wanted to get off the farm, to find my outlet.
Once I was able to take care of myself and my children, I then wanted to share.