I had the opportunity to be around my kids a lot. I guess I could have kept working, but I had them when I was 47. You only get to see all this stuff once. I just chose to work at home and watch them.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I'm really glad I didn't have kids earlier, because I probably would have ignored them. I was so into my career. I could just go and play a ton of shows, night after night after night. I can't do that anymore.
I was raising seven kids. I lived in the bedrooms, in the laundry room, in the kitchen, in the car - car pooling all over. I just didn't have time to sit down and watch a lot of TV. So I really didn't.
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.
We didn't really have television when I was a kid. Around 30, I discovered films and started systematically catching up. I collect interesting documentaries and films, and watch a few nights a week.
There were so many occasions when I wasn't around for my kids or my husband. But we learnt to work around it.
When I was younger, I barely left my room because I was busy watching clips of my favorite actors and performers on the Internet.
Child actors come off as work being their life and doing it 24/7, but I still have those days where it's totally, like, whatever: shopping, movies, adventures.
I remember bossing my younger siblings around and making them put on shows and skits with me.
For 10 or 11 years, I had my kids, I wrote four or five books, and I was working all the damn time.
I was really lucky that, through my 20s, I got to work with some amazing people, and I tried to sit back and watch and learn.