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.
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I wanted to be an actor when I was a kid.
I wanted to be a stage actor but I got stuck on television. It took a couple of years to get used to.
I never really wanted to be an actor. And that was the beginning of it, I began to write things down and eventually became a writer on a television show.
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.
I had always wanted to be on TV; my mom told me that when I was little, I told her I wanted to be a 'modeler,' because that's what I called actors on TV.
I never said that I wanted to be an actor when I was a kid. I didn't know. I thought I was going to be a singer and musician. That's what I had been doing, for a huge part of my life.
I did a show back when I was in high school - so I was about 17 - and it was the first time I was on stage. I never even thought about being an actor before that, but after that experience, I knew it was what I wanted to do.
My introduction to acting was through theatre, so I actually saw a couple of Broadway shows that made me want to be an actor.
I didn't really have any aspirations to do TV when I first decided to be an actor.
At a very early age I knew I wanted to be an actor and then more specifically that I wanted to be on Broadway and be in musicals.