I didn't want to teach. I wanted to act. It was quite a long and difficult road to get there but very thrilling when I did.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I became a teacher all right. I wanted to become a teacher because I had a misconception about it. I didn't know that I'd be going into - when I first became a high school teacher in New York, that I'd be going into a battle zone, and no one prepared me for that.
I loved teaching. It was my world. I only left because I was overwhelmed with three careers - teaching, writing, and my family.
I teach well. I used to really like teaching a lot. I enjoyed it a lot and I was good at it.
I used to say I didn't want to teach. I was still excited about dancing. It's hard to do both. It's as exhausting teaching as it is to dance.
Teaching was the most pleasant thing I did.
One of my missions was to teach.
I always wanted to teach.
I loved teaching. I used to teach fourth grade.
I loved teaching. And I always used to say that acting was just something I did purely on my own terms, and that if I had to make a living from it there would be too much pressure.
It was the desire to do the complete thing. I only took taking acting lessons because my whole thing, really, was to direct. But my first jobs were acting jobs.