"Stuart Little" child star Jonathan Lipnicki: Did he make the wrong career decisions?

Jonathan Lipnicki (34) rose to fame in the 1990s with films like "Jerry Maguire" (1996) and "Stuart Little" (1999). At 14, he disappeared from the public eye for several years to finish high school. As an adult, he now says: "I'm not where I want to be professionally."

Jonathan Lipnicki reveals to People magazine that he's trying to get his acting career back on track after it stalled during his hiatus. "I had some really good things happen when I was younger," he begins. But he also admits that the jump from child acting to adult acting is a big one. "It's totally okay to say I'm not where I want to be career-wise," Lipnicki admits.

Acting is "what I want to do for the rest of my life, and I think you just have to believe in it and do everything in your power to move in the right direction." After high school, for which he intentionally scaled back his career, the American took acting classes and began appearing in smaller films and stage productions in Los Angeles.

"In my adult career, there were a few things that were really good, but nobody saw them," he sums up today. "To be completely honest, I said 'no' to about five films in the last year," Lipnicki admits, regretting, "I'd like to turn things around." He prays every night for clarity about "where I need to go, and I'm confident that the best is yet to come for me. You just have to believe."

His latest project, "The Joe Schmo Show," is "a step in the right direction." The series is about making fun of a person who thinks they're on a reality show. Lipnicki plays a fictionalized, egotistical version of himself. It was a step outside his comfort zone, something he's "most proud of." "As an actor who grew up in this industry, you want to put your best foot forward, and I had to put my worst foot forward." There was something strangely empowering about that.

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