But after a few minutes of convincing myself that I really wanted to go - telling myself that I love skating and that my coach is there waiting for me - I would get up and go. And my mother would always get up and eat breakfast with me!
Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home.
For me, acting was a way of taking destructive energy and doing something productive with it, and in that way it was quite a life saver.

