Freya Tingley Quotes

I'm a big girl. I prioritize. I want to be acting, I want to be singing, but there will be time for that.

I really want to play interesting roles, but you want to work, so it's a balancing game.

My dad gave me this advice: 'Make what you want to do for the rest of your life the first thing you do in the day and then worry about hanging out with friends.'

I know that I have probably an eight- to 10-year window in this league, and if I want to be what I say I want to be, then I have to commit myself 100 percent.

I've been auditioning for a few movies here and there. I don't want anything to get in the way of the music any more than it has. It hasn't really gotten in the way; I've been doing two things at once.

You should just enjoy it, but as soon as you decide that it is going to be your career, no matter whether you want to be a doctor or an architect or anything else, you need to work 5 hours a day.

I truly believe the discipline I have honed as a dancer will bring me more opportunities as an actor.

I had heard about how people struggle and how hard it is to get into acting. But I did not care because it's something I love.

When you like something, you find time to do it.

My job is my sport so I have to make sure that I stay focussed on it. I train almost every day so it takes up a lot of my life and you don't want to bring any new distractions into your life.

The industry should take comfort in knowing that WinStar is my main focus after my faith and family.

Work will take everything you give it. It's up to you to work out what you want to give it.

I was so focused at 21, maybe to my own detriment because I didn't allow myself to have fun. I was constantly looking for the next audition and working to pay the bills.

I've been training as an actor for six years. Nobody goes to acting school for six years. I mean, the college course is only four years! I absolutely trained.

I'm pretty focused on my career, and if it comes down to hanging out with somebody or learning my lines, it's gonna be learning my lines.

Once I committed to acting, this has been it.

My parents know how passionate I've always been about acting. I convinced them this was something that I was going to put my heart and soul into.

I don't want to give up acting - it's what I am.

I was just a little girl watching TV and wanting to be in it. My parents had no idea how to get me there, but here I am as a part of this great cast on the Disney Channel. Truly, if you just want to do this, then you have to commit to it.

If something's important to you, you make time for it.

I'm a writer. The more I act, the more resistance I have to it. If you accept work in a movie, you accept to be entrapped for a certain part of time, but you know you're getting out. I'm also earning enough to keep my horses, buying some time to write.

I have the opportunity to learn about the fashion world, and I appreciate it as an art form... But I never want it to take over my acting.

The world went by, and we didn't get caught up in all the other things, because we didn't have time. We had no spare time. It was always thinking about training and focusing on what we wanted, our goals.

I've made a commitment to concentrate on my career as an entertainer.

You can always find time to do the thing you really, really want to do.