Given my family background, whenever, as a child, I was asked about becoming an actor, I used to answer in the negative.
Seriously, I wanted to be an artist because I saw that it meant endless possibilities. I came from a badly managed family background, so art was a way of reinventing myself.
I came from a folk-family background. Although we weren't really the all-singing, all-dancing-around-the-piano folkies or anything like that, there is that idea of singing and playing with your parents and your family and your cousins.
My family background was heavily slanted toward business and seafaring matters.
