Still, it's tough trying to combine my acting career with my college career.

My acting career helped pull me through the rough times.

I'm not as focused on my acting career as I have been in the past.

Hollywood is fickle; your career can end pretty fast. If the acting jobs dry up, you have to have something to fall back on. In fact, that would be my advice to kids interested in acting - make sure you get an education too.

My advice is to make acting your second career choice.

Poetry has, in a way, been my bridge to my acting career.