My earliest influences were things I heard in my household.
My early years as a 'speaker' involved note cards that shook like a leaf while I held them because I was so nervous.
I was four years old then, and I think it must have been the next summer that I first heard the voices.
I said: I must remember this, being small.
After graduating, I began auditioning for films while continuing to model. I did a few fashion shows, ad shoots, and even got a few Bollywood offers, but nothing great.
Whether it is fear of having fish pie or staying in someone's house or not being able to tell the time, all of those things I can remember very clearly. We so often forget how big all these things are for very small children because they are so often trying these things for the first time.
Early experiences convinced me that animals can and do have quite distinct personalities.
When I first did theatre, I was always doing comedies; it was always my first love. But it wasn't what I was picked for at first, for films and TV.
I'm very competitive. I remember being 4 years old trying to out-chug my dad in a milk-chugging contest. It's been in my blood.
I grew up in a house full of books.
What we did in our childhoods makes us who we are now.
From a very early age, as far back as I can remember, I always played sports.
I think I first got into acting through church. I would go to these church retreats, and they would tell us to make a skit or make a video and present it to the rest of the group. And I started doing that. And I fell in love with it.
I started playing baseball and soccer. Those were my sports on the streets and in school when I was growing up. I didn't even start playing basketball until I was 14.
When I was a kid, my dad used to take me out to the race track, and so many formative experiences have to do with associations like that.
I grew up with my uncle's comic books at my grandma's house, so I've always loved my comic book reading.
Do you remember your childhood? I am always coming across these marvelous accounts by writers who declare that they remember 'everything.' I certainly don't. The dark stretches, the blanks, are much bigger than the bright glimpses. I seem to have spent most of my time like a plant in a cupboard.
You can't knock somebody for how they got into the business. I'm sure I'm gonna look back at 'Roswell' and some of my first movies and I'm gonna cringe.
The first book we fall in love with shapes us every bit as much as the first person we fall in love with.
As children, my siblings and I were actively discouraged from acting. I have no memories of going on set with my parents - aside from 'Gulliver's Travels.'
I have memories of reading comics when I was in primary school, but that's about it.
The decisions that you make in your career stem out from the experiences you have early on in your career.
How I was raised is what I am today.
But the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes.
My first memory of loving music happened so early. We would always go to the beach in the summer and I would run from blanket to blanket, from family to family and just sing Lion King songs acapella.
