This may sound strange but I had dreams as a kid of doing exactly what I ended up doing in my life.
I heard people say, 'Why would he want to do this?' My answer is 'Why not?' It is what I love. It's what I know.
I usually listen to my gut, so to speak, and my wife.
My father was not really pleased when I told him of my choice to train as an actress, when he was with us in this dimension.
Before 'Life of Pi,' I wanted to do economics. And now, I realize how bad a mistake that would have been. I just can't see it as my cup of tea anymore.
Given my family background, whenever, as a child, I was asked about becoming an actor, I used to answer in the negative.
I feel like the longer I hold out - I feel like as soon I move to L.A., I just become one of a million.
I gave up trying to please others and started playing for myself, and because I love music, things naturally happened then. Funny how that works.
I'm going to do whatever I want as long as it's country. I mean, I'm not much on naysayers, so I'll just do whatever. If I like it, I'll do it.
Give all to love; Obey thy heart.
Acting is fun, and if you enjoy doing it, you should take it seriously and see what you can do. It's been a blast, and so you know it was kind of like a test for me to move to L.A. and start studying and see how much I was really into it. Cause I wasn't gonna do it if I wasn't 100% committed.
There were loads of managers who said, 'You have to concentrate on being a winger because you have more potential there.' But I was like, 'You can say what you want, but I'm a midfielder, and I know what's the best for me.'
Item one: the law of the will. We just talked about this: one should only do that which truly fills our hearts with enthusiasm. If we brush this aside, if we put off the moment to live that which we dream of, we lose the energy necessary for any important transformation in our lives. Someone once put this most succinctly: “I don’t know the secret of success - but the secret of failure is to always try to follow the will of others.
