William Kircher — New Zealander Actor born on May 23, 1958,

William Kircher is a New Zealand actor. William Kircher first came to prominence in New Zealand television in the police drama series Shark in the Park... (wikipedia)

If you want to act, do school plays. If they're not there, create them, and the same with local repertory. They are the grounding for a lot of people. Make it happen.
For some time, I thought being a producer would be a more fulfilling career than being an actor. But then I went to a conference in Cannes with 300 other producers, all desperately chasing finance for their projects... and realized being an actor wasn't so bad after all!
Everyone in the '80s was reading Tolkien; he invented this whole medieval fantasy genre.
Adolescence is a difficult time at the best of times, and especially in a smaller town - there's all these different energies going on.
Films are always different from books.