It was easy for me to leave acting for school, because I wasn't really in it as an adolescent for fulfilling reasons.

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I only surround myself with people who are intellectually stimulating.

When I graduated from college I thought I was over with show business and was pursuing other things.

Kids are brought into show business because they are cute and see truth and they're very bright. But there's a sense of doing it because you want the adults to be approving of you. You want to make them happy.

People have good and bad days.

It was more like having unwanted attention as a child - if you'd walk around, people would recognize you, and it would be in a weird, almost making-fun-type manner.

Show business got really tainted for me.