My passion for acting

ready

and action have your parents ever told

you that the sky is your limit

have you been asked where you want to be

when you grow up i

am a child and sorry adults but your

questions and encouragements are just

too small and restrictive

firstly there is no sky it’s a product

of our imagination

which means our dreams can be limited by

nothing

so maybe the better question is what

positive

imprint do you want to leave on the

world that way every child’s dreams can

be bigger

and the sky won’t be our limit for

example

i dream of bringing people joy i want to

lessen their pain and make them escape

reality

even if only for a couple of hours

i was on holiday in rome once and there

i watched an old black and white film

called

the roman holiday audrey hepburn plays a

princess

who has a chance to hide the fact that

she’s royal and she grabs it

she switches from being a princess

dudley duckling and from ugly duckling

to being a princess

imagine playing a character so

incredible

that was the start of my dream i want to

be an actor

notice i say actor do you know why

because that is the actual name of the

profession same as a professor

or a doctor or a teacher when we come to

the theater

we watch actors on stage so even though

i’m a girl

i dream of becoming an actor i promise

you this is the only grammar lesson i

will give in this talk

i’ve never had to ask myself why i chose

acting

it’s a feeling it’s a dream it’s a

vision it’s what i imagine and what i

plan

i’ve been told that i’m lucky to have

found what i love so early in life

maybe this is where my luck stops them

and the work begins when i first

auditioned for an acting agency

their rejection was immediate but i

returned a year later

and this time i left nothing to chance i

was still petrified

but i pretended like i owned the place i

blast into the room

with my heart don’t fail me now courage

don’t decide me don’t turn back

now that we’re here there were no

spotlights

but for all i knew there were plenty and

they were all aimed at me

what happened in that year between being

rejected and succeeding

confidence is a strange phenomenon not

like i’d gained it in that year

not really but i acted like i had

i’m naturally not of the shy nature but

i’m not outright free either

i’m in between but what i noticed about

confidence

is you can outsmart your shyness by over

preparing fake it till you make it

there were no wind blowing machines

during that casting but

they might as well have been because i

had choreographed every flick of my hair

if i was to give advice on how to gain

confidence i would say never go

unprepared

use all the simple tricks memorize

practice in the mirror

get feedback from your parents perform

in front of neighbors if you can

or even your little cousins will do

sometimes of course doing all of these

doesn’t guarantee a positive outcome

i have so far secured one tiny part in a

fantastic film

but i have been to dozens of auditions

hours of preparation have ended in

rejection

except i don’t see it as rejection

because i don’t feel upset

it doesn’t make me worry i still

consider going to auditions the funnest

part of the process

i meet casting directors chat with film

directors and i get to pretend to be

someone else

it is very very exciting i love it

that’s why i believe in not giving up on

your dreams or at least going for as

long as you can

because the list of things you do get to

do during the process can bring you so

much satisfaction and joy and if you

don’t know where your dream will take

you

or if you’re worried that it won’t come

true that’s okay

just keep going at your own pace and

enjoy the ride

i have no idea if i was born with a

talent for acting

but i know that with time i’ve developed

a passion for it

and this is the motivation this joy of

feeling completely like yourself

of trusting yourself having faith that

you can do something

we must hold on to believing that one

small person can dream the biggest

dreams

paint the largest pictures and make

endless possibilities come true

thank you for having me on the stage and

listening to a little girl’s big dream

i naturally owe it to all of those who

believed in me first and foremost mr

kitchen mrs watt and mr kiefer

to the teachers and students who came

together today thanks to this project

that i portrayed myself with utmost

authenticity it was such an honor for me

to speak to you all