I knew I wanted to be a performer, but I didn't know I would specifically be in film. I actually never thought I would be in film. I always envisioned being on the stage.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I never thought I would be in a film.
I had been taking acting classes on and off while I was modeling, so I always had a dream to be in a film.
I really wanted to go onstage. Not movies. But I ended up under contract to Paramount. Now I adore film work.
I went to film school at Columbia and did that for a couple years and really thought I was going to be a filmmaker, and then I kind of drifted over to the acting side after that. I'd been an actor in high school, and when I got to college, it was all about film.
I started in theater; I did theater in New York for 14 years before I even thought about doing movies - I never thought about being in a film; it just never occurred to me.
A career in film didn't seem like something I could attain. Whereas I grew up next to New York City, and I spent my life going into New York City seeing plays, and I was a theater actor in school. Acting on the stage felt really natural to me, and I liked it, and I wasn't terrible at it.
When I emerged from drama school, I had no expectation that I would ever work in film.
I was a film student. I became an actor, but I thought I'd be pursuing filmmaking originally.
When I initially started acting, all I wanted to do was to be in one movie. That's it. That was my goal.
Growing up, I wasn't sure about acting, but I knew I wanted to be part of the movie industry.