I think I've always been a ham when I was younger, always liked to dress up even before I could remember.

My name is Daniel Ferrin.

I am an actor and home health aide.

I'm also a member of the Screen Actors Guild, which is the union for television and radio, and we are in Delaware Water Gap, Pennsylvania.

I took care of my mother.

She was my rock and my angel.

I was at summer camp, and my mother sewed 1,000 sequins onto a glove for me, and I wore it when it was in to wear it.

That's the kind of mother my mother was.

I think of her all the time with this glove because all her heart and soul went into it.

One of the people that worked for hospice said I was so good at taking care of my mother that I should consider being a home health care aide, and I've been doing it for eight years.

I do all kinds of different weird art.

I'm still working on this one, but it's on canvas.

I was diagnosed in 1976 with Tourette syndrome, a neurological disorder, which is different twitches and movements.

Doctors put me on medication, but it didn't help.

Eventually, I was weaned off medications, and I was able to function better.

Even though I had Tourette's, I didn't allow it to hold me back.

I graduated high school and started pursuing acting.

Watch where you're going, you bum.

There's pictures of me with socks on my hands and sunglasses.

I always kind of had the acting bug.

If I can't make people laugh or entertain people, I feel like I can't breathe.

All right, so I got a script.

I got cast for a short film called The Last Run, and I'm very excited about it, and this is part of the script.

Mike, what's going on?

Where are you?

How you gotta hurry?

My very first role I got as a background was on a movie called The Basketball Diaries with Leonardo DiCaprio, and I was so excited, I couldn't believe it.

And this is a photo of Leo and I on set in New York City.

I was a background in a film by M. Night Shyamalan called Glass, and two years later, I'm on the set with Sylvester Stallone in Creed II.

I might not be the main star, but that's okay.

Hey, how are you?

This is Danny.

I'm here with Jonathan and Jake.

Hi.

Hey, how are you?

And we're filming a short film called A Mime is a Terrible Thing to Waste.

We're out on location shooting today.

If you want to become an actor, you would go online and there's options for classes, there's a newspaper called Backstage, and then you have to find, that will follow with legitimate agencies that can help you get work.

Then you can submit your photos and talents and just keep at it.

I'll tell you, people with Tourette's, they get no respect, you know what I'm saying?

Being a home health aide is my main bread and butter.

That's how I pay my bills, my rent.

It can fluctuate.

I had a client for about a year at 40 hours a week.

So it's a matter of just budgeting yourself to try to be confident enough to make enough to be able to survive and live on your own.

Being a home health aide is flexible.

Most companies will work with you.

If you say I go to school or pursuing something else, I've been very blessed.

The acting, it will pay.

You just have to make it work.

So basically, I'm making this what will look like a throne of ice.

And I've made some fake icicles out of plastic and hot glue.

And I'm going to be dressed in my own version of Jack Frost.

Tourette's doesn't hold me back because I know in my mind of what I'm capable of doing.

The more people told me you can't do that, the more I did it.

When people would say, you can't do that, I'd say, I'm going to do it, and I'm going to do it better than you could do it.

You always have to go up and show them I can do anything I put my mind to.

Come on, man.

Go with your heart.

Always go with your heart and your passion.

Try not to let others discourage you in whatever you're doing.

The next thing for my journey is to continue to pursue my careers and my goals with working on some big films, doing some voiceover and commercials, and be seen by many people who can help me climb the ladder.