My acting ability would have sent me back to the post office. It was my singing that got me jobs. Ironically, now, people think of me as an actor and don't know me much as a singer.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I got my first acting role because I was a singer.
Because I came out as a singer, I took the time to get an acting coach.
I only know acting. But had I learnt singing earlier, I would have become a singer.
The first thing I wanted to be was an actor, even before I wanted to be a singer, before I discovered I could sing.
I just became a singer, because I could never get work as an actress.
So the only things I was being allowed to audition for were small roles in comedies. It broke my heart. No one would see me for anything else. I knew, in order to open up my career, I had to leave or that's all I would ever be given.
My singing led into acting, and that is how I discovered acting.
Sometimes I wonder what would have happened if I hadn't become an actor. If perhaps I'd stayed on at university and become an academic.
I wanted the focus to be on my ability as a singer and as an entertainer - not on my private life.
I was always one of those fortunate people who never wanted to be anything other than a singer and an actor. Most people know me as a singer, but I am also an actor.