Quote Of The Day

"I would want to be outside playing baseball one minute and be on-stage the next. But a lot of times the other kids didn't allow me to do that because they kind of felt alienated from me and what I was doing. The truth is, I felt alienated from them. It was a whole sticky situation and it was really, really hard for me to adjust because I just didn't know who my true friends were. There was a lot of backbiting, and I realized that a lot of people didn't want me to succeed. So to curb everything, when I was at school with my friends, I just stopped talking about which auditions I was going on and what jobs I was getting, because I didn't want to feel the stress. I would try to keep it to myself. I had to deal with a lot of hurt - and I fell down a lot of times. But those bad times helped my determination and made me want to be successful even more."