Dascha Polanco Quotes

I got into acting my junior year of high school. We got a new hot drama teacher and I was like 'Alright, I'll try drama.'

I had been singing all my life, but I started acting in high school.

I have taught history on the high school and college levels, and am or have been a lecturer at the Smithsonian, The National Institutes of Health, and numerous colleges and universities, mostly on science fiction and technology subjects.

By the time I entered high school, I had forsaken academics altogether in favor of my burgeoning acting career.

We live in New York. To be able to have a steady job and take your kids to school, and be around and work hard, is the perfect life.

I kind of fell backwards into acting. I was studying to be a high school teacher. I look now and I understand completely, or actually barely, how much work it is to be a teacher. It's an incredible amount of work.

I'm not qualified to do anything else. So there better be another job. I'm kind of stuck now. I'm enjoying my life and I'm enjoying my work, and I'm enjoying the fact that the work I'm doing is garnering some interest and that's great. I just hope that it continues.

I wanted to be a doctor when I was a kid, but I started doing theater in high school because it was a requirement. At first, I was completely irritated. But I ended up loving it.

I went to high school in Los Angeles, and I grew up riding horses, so that was kind of my life. I always wanted to act.

I used to enjoy the spotlight. If I had a day off from filming, I didn't know what to do. Now I enjoy my family time so much, there is this sense of, if it all went away, and I was just a mom, I would love my life.

I began thinking I would do musical theater because in high school that was really the only sort of curriculum they had as far as getting onstage and doing anything that anybody would see. So that's what I did.

I remember being interested in theater when I was in school, but I wasn't always engaged in making it a career. I was a cheerleader in Texas, but I tore my ACL, so I was out for the rest of the season. That's when I started putting more of my passion into theater.

My brother and I did theater in high school, and were both in Pennsylvania Youth Theatre. It was awesome. When you go to Los Angeles, it's a rough city, and it's hard. You drive around in your car in your own little bubble, and there's tons of rejection. Being from the Lehigh Valley helped because it was something so stable.

I will settle down & teach for the rest of my days.

Life is not about acting in films alone. There are so many things in life other than films and acting.

I can live without football. There are more important things in life.

Once you succeed at what you're doing, your parents see that what you were doing wasn't so bad after all, though they'd prefer to see you in a secure lifestyle where you have a contract for years and years, or you have a diploma or degree.

Acting is something I always wanted to try after wrestling, and I felt like this was a perfect fit.

Football is my life, but there are more important things in life.

I didn't finish high school. I tried to as an adult, but with all this touring, I had to quit.

I only got into show business because I quit football.

Like individuals in all walks of life, footballers want stability and we have families to look after.

I've been able to have some longevity here with the Chargers. It is unique.

I was not exposed to a lot of culture. The shows we saw in high school, like 'Phantom of the Opera' and 'Miss Saigon,' were thrilling. But my love affair with theater started with seeing a production of 'Little Shop of Horrors' that my sister was in.

I majored in theater. I did plays. But musicals were not my thing.