The rule with my mom was that the only way that I could be an actress when I was young was that I continued to go to public school and get straight A's in all my classes.
Acting was my after-school activity. I never planned on growing up and becoming an actor.
I didn't even get a computer till I was 16, so I didn't have Internet when I was in middle school and beginning of high school. I didn't think to be looking things up and looking at message boards saying whether people liked me or not.
People would be surprised to know that I've gone to regular school my whole life, and I don't have one friend who is an actor!