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There's no doubt that I owe a lot to my training of stage acting.

Once I started performing I knew that's what I wanted to do with my life. But you have to work really hard to be a performer.

I started working on stage as a dancer when I was four; by 14 or 15, I knew I wanted to study the craft of acting.

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.

I never wanted to go longer than five years off the stage. Not necessarily musicals, but just doing a play or something.

To survive in a profession like this, you have to have absolute discipline and commitment, and I did not quite have it for musical theater.

I've been performing on stage since I was six years old.

At the age of 15 I began my singing lessons, and once I became a professional performer, I dove into acting.

I think if you're an actor, then you can work on stage - but if you've never done it before, you're going to have picked up a few things that you're going to need to change when you're working on stage.