If you want to grow up and do what I do for a living - be an actress - my advice to you is read as much as you can.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I think my guideline has been to find things that inspire me. And as long as I stick to that, I don't think I'll have any problems crossing over to becoming an adult actress.
As far as developing a career as an actress, I think it's a fine balance between trying to just work, and also be true to yourself.
I am very ambitious and have set goals for myself. I really don't keep a tab on what my contemporaries are doing. I want to push myself as an actress and don't want to get into the rat race. With every film, I want to grow as a person and an actress. The character I play needs to change me in real life.
I don't know if you ever say to yourself that you want to be an actress. It eventually becomes a social function - you are an actress and you make a living out of it, but at the beginning it's more a matter of how to survive, or how to exist in a certain way.
I probably wouldn't be acting if I didn't grow up in Hollywood.
Honestly, I am not trying to discourage anyone from becoming an actress, but if you want to become one be prepared to face everything that comes - along with it.
The good thing about being an actress is that it's very children-friendly. I can work for three months, and then I can have six months off.
I really want to try to become a great actress when I get older and continue to do what I'm doing now.
If you really want to be an actress, go to school. I think it's great what people are doing on YouTube, but don't forget to go to class. Have a vision for yourself, but don't forget to do the work.
The thing about being an actor is that you're in the business of not growing up.