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While I was growing up all over, in all my different schools, I was always doing theater, auditioning for plays.

Starting at age four, my mom decided that she was not going to have an idle child in the house. So I started taking dance lessons on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and then I was in acting classes on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, and I was also modeling on Saturdays. And that was my childhood.

I think I spent most of my childhood, and my early years as a performer, in student mode. And I think that's OK - I mean, it led me to where I am.

My real training as an actor was when I started doing theatre.

I trained in the theatre.

As a kid, my main interest was dancing. When I was 8 years old, I was in a hip-hop troupe.

There were times in my career I went a little further than I wanted because of expectations. Doing certain things onstage when children were in the audience, wearing certain clothes, singing certain lyrics.

Running around when I was a kid was a really happy time; a time when getting home for dinner or for sleep were my only responsibilities.

I was really active as a kid. I was outdoors constantly.

I was very vocal about what I wanted to do at a very young age. I wanted to be inside of the television set. I didn't know being on TV was being an actor.