The Secret Actor, You Know?

In high school, i would take plays off the bookshelf and practise them alone in my house. I rehearsed sort of in secret from the basketball team because it was shy a for a few months. And then one day i took this play off the shelf by edward alby called the zoo story e. It's a short play, but at one point there's like a 25 minute monologue from this one guy, uninterrupted. So i really thought it would be really cool to see if i can even memorize this it started with,. just could i memorize it? But later that week  my parents sat me down and said we've been talking about being an actor