I don't know if you saw the parting of the Red Sea with the chariots on the horses, I did stuff like that.
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.
My mother used to take my brother and me to get any books we wanted, but they were second hand books published in the '30s and '40s. I liked scary books.