I could have gone professional, but I'm not giving up on my dream.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I'm not a professional. Yet somehow, I manage to get away with it.
Being professional is just really clearly the way to go and helps you on the road to longevity.
By the time I was 22, I was a professional. A young and flawed professional, but not an amateur.
I almost didn't turn pro at all. I was tempted to be a career amateur. I worked as an investment banker for nine months after I got out of school, and the money was fantastic and promised to get even more lucrative.
I wish over the years I had kept my private life private and my professional life a little more professional.
My one ambition was to go to Broadway, and I never gave up on that dream.
All my friends were going off to be professionals, and I said I wanted to be an actor.
My professional dreams were coming true while I was living a personal nightmare.
I've never been good at making smart career decisions or doing the right strategic thing, and yet somehow it's all led me to exactly the kind of career that I would have dreamed of having - if only I'd been smart enough to dream something like that.
I just want to stay professional.