"Commercials were too phony for me. It was selling a product, and who owns the product? I mean, are they supporting apartheid? I just didn't like the whole thing, even though it helped us pay the rent. How could I tell anybody to drink canned cranberry juice? I didn't drink it. I didn't believe in what I was saying. I guess what I was zeroing in on was that performing was more about telling the truth through a different character's eyes. I felt that the constant lying, the smiling on cue, and the product naming was going to drive me crazy or numb me to a not-yet-developed craft that I was beginning to feel staring me in the face"