However, most of my part, I play a pediatrician, and most of my role had to do with being in another place, staying at the hospital and trying to save kids and stay until people could come. So, it was more based on reality.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I have always chosen roles that I believed in - not ones that I thought might further my career.
The main thing I do now is I coach kids, and all of these stories along the way are based in reality.
I love kids, so two things that I have thought about are being a pediatrician or a kindergarten teacher.
I've always felt like I've had the ability to choose which roles I was going to play. I don't think that the industry agreed with me, but I've always had a bit of a headstrong attitude of only doing the things that I really believe in and want to explore.
As a child I wanted to be everything from a doctor, lawyer, flight attendant to an IT pro- fessional and could never make up my mind. I figured as an actor I'd get to play all these professions.
For a while I thought about studying medicine at school and becoming a doctor because I've always been interested in psychology and how people's minds operate. But I'm able to explore some of that as an actor and ultimately I think it seems more interesting.
I thought I'd be doing theater, really. That's all I had experience with growing up. I mean, I saw movies and television, but I don't think I really connected at a young age that that was acting, that that was part of the profession.
Every role affords me something different in the way of understanding, and that's really why you take these roles, not to show that thing that people talk about of showing what you can do - that has nothing to do with anything.
The choices of roles I made had to do with educating and entertaining. And as a result I found myself working only every two or three years.
My focus is mainly on education. I believe education made all the difference for me, and it is certainly going to make all the difference for other children, too.