Has the fact you started your career young helped you, or do you think you've missed out on things because of it?
Probably a bit of both. I mean it's hard to look back on your life and say, "I've missed out on this," or to say, "I have a foot up on this person because of this."
I definitely did miss out on something. There are some prize life experiences I missed, there's also some life experiences that I'm sure a very few others at my age had ever had. I've always looked at [things and] instead of [thinking], 'What am I going to gain from something?", [it's], "What do I have to sacrifice to get that something?" because oftentimes it's the sacrifice that's going to become more important in your life than the actual materialistic or even spiritual gain of something.
So that was a sacrifice I was willing to make in my youth, sports and other things like that, extra curricular activities. Acting really became my extra curricular activity, became my family.
I personally think that if you get any seven or eight year old child into something, they're bound to be more committed to it because they learned from such a young age. The brain is growing at such a large pace at that age too that I think if you start teaching a six year old Spanish it's much easier than teaching a 20 year old Spanish, or even a 16 year old.
