I have made a career of creating characters who fight school authority and chomp at the bit to get out into the 'real' world and live their lives, mostly because that's the kind of teenager I was.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I take stuff from real life and try to make a character out of it. And I try to live the world of the characters a little bit.
Some of the characters that I played as a kid were rebellious teenagers, and people would see those performances and project a particular image onto me. And 90 percent of the time, I would do everything I could to live up to that sort of image and be that individual.
I mean I tried to transform myself through characters throughout my career.
I've kind of had to make a career of playing villains. In order to stay employed, I had to figure out how to play bad guys.
When I was in school, I was always writing scripts and dressing up as characters. I'd constantly be that guy who'd get up on stage. I used to write imaginary TV shows, like soap operas, for fun.
I started writing juvenile novels around 1985. I never really thought of it as a career, but more as a way to make a living.
My whole career has been fulfilling my childhood fantasies, playing characters that are larger than life, getting to play a knight, an elf, a prince, and a soldier.
My job is to focus on bringing characters to life in an honest and personal way.
When I became my masked identity I was this incredible little nerd, but in the real world I had to be this tough kid from the neighborhood.
I've had the opportunity to do a wide range of stuff, a lot of different characters and they've all had their own kind of thing.
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