I mean, there's a sense wherein you skip a part of childhood, too, when you start working at that age I did; I was out working and out of home at 15, paying my own way in the world.

One of the things that I found very confronting in my early working life was that people thought I was some sensitive doe-eyed lovelorn boy, because they'd seen me do that a couple of times. What tends to happen is you get a run of similar roles.

There are two things: 1) what things one does in the world, and 2) what family one has. There's the two really tangible things that can stay.

At 15 I had moved out of my parents' place, and my options were looking pretty narrow. But I had this acting thing and I just wanted to be able to keep going because it was really good. That was all I wanted.

I've spent various periods of my career being thought of as various things, various degrees of substance and ideas.

From my point of view, things don't have to change to get better. Things are fantastic.

You can certainly extend your adolescence. There's people that are very good at extending it indefinitely.