I remember stealing some pic n' mix when I was seven; when I got out of the shop, I burst into tears.
In the years since I worked with John Hughes, there were many years where I literally had hundred of doors slammed in my face because I wasn't that kid anymore, and I wasn't a character actor, and I wasn't a leading man, and I wasn't whatever Hollywood was looking for.
We should be more anxious that our afflictions should benefit us than that they should be speedily removed from us.

