Most child actors go through that. Unless you can transition into an adult star, your career is over.

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

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

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.

I lost agents and managers because I turned down big movies that were smutty.

Everything is a rejection of you, not your product, or your script, or a cosmetic. It's you.

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