When I finally decided that my only hope was to go to college, I took an acting class, and once I walked onstage, I just knew I was home.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I was convinced that I was going to be onstage for the rest of my life.
I remember being in college knowing I didn't want to go anymore. I wanted to try and become an actor. There is a something in me, with a risk of sounding cliche, that I just had to do it. I knew from an early age that acting was my path.
In college, that was when I felt that acting is the one I really wanted because I got to be my true self; this is what I want to do for the rest of my life.
I had been a ballet dancer and never could make a living, and just being so excited that I got to, all of a sudden, live as an actor.
I wanted to be an actor because I wanted to be onstage. I wanted to do musical theater, and from that I realized I was interested in plays. I never imagined myself on television. I was so lucky to be onstage my whole life.
It was only when I finished the course and left my graduation diploma on the bus that I realised I'd become an actor.
My dad was a theater actor, so I would follow him backstage. And my mom was a casting director. The moment I heard the applause and realized it would get me out of school, I was hooked.
The big turn in the late '90s was that I realized I was going to be doing this for a long time. I was fairly sure I was going to be an actor for the rest of my life, which I think calmed me down.
It was fun being an actor, but by the time college rolled around, I was ready to try some new things. By the time I graduated, I realized I enjoyed having a normal life and I never went back.
It was when I was on stage that I realized that acting could be such a brilliant job.