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

I've played killers, crazies, and really bad people.

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

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.

My mother had been a country and western singer but when she moved out to Hollywood found it very difficult to get work so when I was born they put me into dance classes and singing classes as soon as I could walk actually.