Why do I want to be an actor?

1. I love performing, it feels like play time.

2. I hate desk jobs, especially the 9-5 kind

3. I was given the opportunity to manage a bead store, but even at my best, I got fired. On my way home, while I was crying about my failure, I remembered that I had some background actor work ahead of me, and a small part in an indie flick, and put the pain behind me.

4. In high school, it was the only subject that I got the highest grades in, over science, math and english.

5. I love the instant gratification I get when on stage, and the audience responds.

6. My happiest moments, even while on welfare or broken hearted, were on being on stage or on set.

7. Everytime I watch TV or a movie, I'm always analysing it like an actor.

8. Other interests have been lost to me, and I haven't missed them, while the bite I still suffer from the acting bug won't go away: I didn't choose it, it chose me.

9. It's the one thing that gives me reason to wake up in the morning.

10.I wrote a monologue, and after I performed it, my younger brother said, "You wrote that yourself?", and after I said yes, he was silent, and I could tell he was proud of me.

11. Eventhough I feel like a coward on a daily basis, I can push aside my fears whenever I have to go onstage or before a tough casting director and come away in one piece.

12. I know my skill will strengthen with practice, that my flabby acting muscle will become firm someday.

13.Eventhough I am a fugitive of the student loan creditors for going to an acting school, I think it was the most valuable time spent.

14.The desire for it hasn't burned out yet.

15.I don't care about being a superstar.

16.I sometimes catch myself in the background on old reruns of TV shows and get all warm and tingly inside.

17. I sometimes catch other actors I know of, and turn hunter green with envy that I could be in Vancouver auditioning, instead of being here in Winnipeg.

18.No matter how often my dad lectures me on finding a real job with a real trade, deep down I have some faith in myself that I know what I want to do with my life.

19. When I was new to Jr. High, and I had to chose between French and Drama class, my mom told me that another language was more important, but I already new I wanted drama.

20.When a girl in my grade 7 class asked me if I'd ever considered being an actor, it was like an epiphany.

"I'll be pursuing it until I'm 89", I once said.