I guess if I can give any advice, I would just say that everything will pass, and it’ll feel like it was a big deal over nothing. Life goes on and then you change and other things happen, and everything feels like it’s so much worse afterwards. It’ll always get better.
It is similar to what I said before about doing what is right for you. If you know what you believe in and if you stay true to yourself and give 150% of yourself and if you live a truthful and genuine life and if you follow your passion and push yourself anything and everything will happen. That is how I have lived my life. It doesn’t mean there will not be struggles on the way, but the difference between you succeeding or not will be tested. Getting up and trying again, especially in this industry with so many “no’s” can break you, but you need to keep pushing. There are a lot of struggles on the way to success but you will prevail if you keep pushing forward.
Nina Dobrev on You are such a great role model for girls, you have so much substance and wisdom. Do you have any advice for young women looking to follow in your footsteps? (The Imagista Magazine)
I think there is a little bit of me in both the characters. I am in a different place in my life right now so I would have to say that I relate more to Clem at the moment. Then on top of everything, what is different about being on a sitcom is that the more the writers get to know you, the more they start to write in your voice. However, at the time, I could have probably related more to Elena, or Katherine, or one of the other five characters I played on the show.
Nina Dobrev on you mentioned both Elena and Clem before and how different both of those characters were, do you feel like you have any similarities to either of these characters? (The Imagista Magazine)
I am not the typical actor type in the sense that my journey didn’t begin with me always dreaming of being an actor. As a kid, especially being the child of immigrants, we didn’t have very much and it was a daily struggle to make ends meet. When I told my parents I wanted to be an actor, they supported it but I don’t think they fully believed it was something that could really turn into a career. From a very young age I loved performing, in whatever form that was. My parents and brother would probably describe me as an annoying kid but they saw I loved putting on shows. My parents began signing me up for community theater classes and summer camps to keep me busy and that is where it all kind of began for me. It wasn’t until I went to a performing arts high school in Toronto that I began truly developing all these tools to use while performing. Following that, I got an agent and it all kind of took off from there.
Nina Dobrev on how she got into acting (The Imagista Magazine)