I started performing professionally at age 8. By the time I got out of HIgh School I had appeared in four or five films and a handful of TV shows and knew what kind of work I wanted to do, so I started in acting or, to be more precise, waiting tables. It took about two years, but at age 20 I started making a living as an actor and managed to sustain that for over 20 years.
By the time I was in my late Twenties/early Thirties I had acheived almost everything I wanted (small part in a big film, big part in a small film, etc) and found myself working be more...