Growing up in Hollywood meant there were a lot of film stars' kids at my school - but no conspicuous wealth. It wasn't cool to show off that you had money.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I'm not a wealthy person because I was never a star. I was a working actor and a supporting actor.
I don't think the money people in Hollywood have ever thought I was normal, but I am dedicated to my work and that's what counts.
Growing up in Hollywood it seemed like every kid was the child of some star.
I didn't grow up in a wealthy family at all. Being at home all day and watching movies, that was a luxury.
There were very, very large sums of money that I made when I was very young - 15 million published works and a great many successful movies don't make nothin'.
As for Hollywood children, their social life can get a little overboard, just like their parents can. Living in town, you attend so many functions.
One thing that people keep on saying to me is that the wealth and the fame must have made up for missing out on my childhood. But the idea of money - putting a price on your childhood - is ridiculous. You will never get those years back and you can't put a price on them.
I was 9 years old, and this was - well, whenever it was, they paid a thousand bucks. I thought I was going to be rich forever! But I had no thought I would be an actor at that point.
Apart from earning an awful lot of money, why would you go to Hollywood?
I understood why films were made, and if they made a lot of money, they were successful. All of these things I knew. As a ten-year-old boy, I didn't really think a lot about finances or celebrity. I always viewed films as kind of what I imagined a summer camp to be like.