You put yourself on the line as a performer, and when people reject you, it's a personal rejection.

You've got to hang on to who you are, what you are. Don't let anyone take it from you.

I had no real education because I was in and out of schools so I decided that I would completely change my look, change my image, change my name and move to New York.

I can meet any producer in Hollywood and look them in the eye, knowing I didn't sleep with them, or do drugs with them.

The highest grossing films have great, moral messages - not dirty, base themes, so we're trying to get producers to make more of the uplifting movies.

The only time in my career prior to that I played an evil character was in 'The Twilight Zone'.

At the time I was growing up in the business I was very well established within the industry as a child actor and as I grew up and turned into a teenager there was less and less work.