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