It changed my life in a lot of ways - before I got that role I was just going from job to job, not really having enough money to be able to do what I wanted to do.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I've had to change careers several times. Sometimes because my interests changed. Sometimes because all bridges have been burned beyond recognition, sometimes because I desperately needed money. And sometimes just because I hated everyone in my old career or they hated me.
I certainly feel my career was a great career because it inspired so many many people, literally hundreds of people to follow a new kind of life and to realize that they could make out and advance their own professional and private and social lives.
When I came into the business, things changed a lot, and my life was in a real state of flux.
The choices of roles I made had to do with educating and entertaining. And as a result I found myself working only every two or three years.
I got the first job and kept going. Once I got a job, I very much wanted to keep getting jobs, basically. I did try to learn what I could in those first couple of decades.
Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for what I love doing.
I remember feeling that. I couldn't do, nor did I want to do, the kinds of roles I'd been doing.
I think early on I knew what I was going to do and it was based a lot on familiarity but it was also because I didn't have a lot of skills. There was nothing I wanted t be. I didn't want to be a doctor. I wanted to be in show business.
My objective was to have as varied a selection of roles as possible. It probably did hurt my career.
You know, I consistently change in my own life so the roles I'm suitable for also change, and that's a really nice thing about this profession.