I felt like I was going crazy as a kid. I wanted to be man, get a job.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Starting my career as a kid, I was doing what jobs I got.
I had a nutty career. I was living in New York. Then I got to an age where my friends and sister were having children, and I started to think I needed to orient myself towards a world where it could happen.
I went back to high school and decided that I wanted to be a kid for a while, whatever that means, but once again I found myself back with acting, so clearly I couldn't escape the passion.
I was obsessed with work in my youth. It's why I didn't get married until I was 38 and the reason I didn't have kids.
I know that sounds dramatic, but shooting everything twice and going through the emotions of two different humans was crazy for me at 16. In terms of my career, that was something that really, really formed me.
In the early 2000s, I was going through a lot. I didn't have my head screwed on right. Where I was at as a man, I was still growing up.
I was one of those kids who wanted to do everything, I wanted to be a marine biologist, an actress, a writer, an environmentalist, an activist.
Sometimes it feels like I've been in the business forever, but then other times, it feels like kind of a flash. Growing up, all I wanted to do was sing. All I wanted to do was get on a bus and ride around the country and sing for people and be a household name.
I have worked so hard since I was 15 years old, all because I wanted to be a mom.
Most young people were getting jobs in big companies, becoming company men. I wanted to be individual.