My first inspiration for acting came from the first episode of 'Hannah Montana.' That's when I knew I wanted to be a singer and an actress.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I got my first acting role because I was 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.
When I was younger, all I wanted to do was be a singer, and then I got into a great acting class in New York and became obsessed with that.
When I was younger, I started taking singing lessons and dance and acting. I just started acting first because that's how everything happened.
The acting was first. As a teenager I was an actress; and then I came back as a singer.
My introduction to acting was through theatre, so I actually saw a couple of Broadway shows that made me want to be an actor.
When I was a kid, the idea of why I wanted acting to be the thing I do for the rest of my life was different. It was, Oh yeah, I'll get girls and be famous.
I was very vocal about what I wanted to do at a very young age. I wanted to be inside of the television set. I didn't know being on TV was being an actor.
I had done some commercial work in junior high and stuff - my mother would bring me into the city, and we'd go on these crazy castings. Acting was something I always dreamed of doing... it was my passion when I was young.
My singing led into acting, and that is how I discovered acting.