Police work was fascinating, and I didn't imagine that acting was something a kid from San Mateo, California, could really pursue.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Working with Mrs. Clarke at The Gryphon School is when I really began to think of acting as a potential career.
I had an agent in Salt Lake City, but acting was more like a hobby.
I was one of the only ones there interested in acting. You find when you're doing school plays that a lot of people there were on punishment, or something.
I went to a very academic school that actually - when I got to the point of wanting to pursue acting, they just had no idea how to do that, because all of their contacts were very academic.
Acting was something that I grew up just doing. I certainly never thought about it.
Before I pursued acting full-time, I had every intention of going into some form of law enforcement work.
My first audition happened to be for 'Kindergarten Cop,' and I took that role. I was only starting to learn English at that point. Spanish is my first language, so they made me a speaking character in the movie. I didn't really know I was shooting a movie. I was just having a lot of fun with 30 kids my own age.
I actually wanted to be a police officer like my dad for the longest time, up until my sophomore year in high school when I started doing plays. I did plays when I was little, but in high school, I started getting into acting.
Acting is what I've pursued since I was a child.
Long time ago, I was going to be a New York cop, then got involved with this girl who was into acting, then got bit by the acting bug myself.