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Danielle Fishel had to learn at a young age what it takes to make it in the cutthroat world of Hollywood.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The “Boy Meets World”<\/a> star told Fox News Digital that on her first day on set as a preteen, she was told she would be let go if she didn\u2019t improve.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“When I got the job at 12, I hadn’t worked very much,” she explained while standing next to her “Dancing with the Stars” <\/a>partner, Pasha Pashkov.\u00a0<\/p>\n

She continued, “I had done mostly commercials and a couple episodes of \u2018Full House.\u2019 So, walking onto that set and just trying to navigate all of it, the expectations were very high.”<\/p>\n

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The 44-year-old said she “was told on my very first day that if I didn’t come back the next day and do it completely differently, that I was going to be fired.”<\/p>\n

She stayed up until 4 a.m. that night going over her lines with her mother, “and just so badly wanted to impress the producers the next day. And I did, and it turned into a seven-year job.”<\/p>\n

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Fishel played Topanga Lawrence from 1993 until 2000.\u00a0<\/p>\n

She said while she jokes about it, she knows “Boy Meets World” will be the first sentence of her obituary.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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“It is the defining aspect of my career, and Topanga is so close to me as a person, it’s almost like I am not sure where she ends and where I begin,” she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The actress, who is one of 10 remaining contestants on “Dancing with the Stars,” still holds “Boy Meets World” close to her heart.\u00a0<\/p>\n

For the show\u2019s “Dedication Night” this week, Fishel honored 98-year-old actor William Daniels<\/a>, who played the \u201890s show\u2019s wise teacher, Mr. Feeny.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Daniels actually joined Fishel on stage as she danced to the show\u2019s theme song, giving her an “A” at the end of her jive.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Fishel explained that she had first thought of honoring her mother-in-law, who died of cancer<\/a>, for dedication night, but when she found out the person had to come out and dance with her, she realized Daniels would be perfect.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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“That same night I said, \u2018Who better than Bill,\u2019 who is, you know, I call him like the patriarch of the show that changed my life, and is the shining example of professionalism that I have modeled my entire career after.”<\/p>\n

She continued, “When we all started the show and I was 12 and, you know, I didn’t know what it meant to be a professional, we would laugh and we would joke, and we would mess up our lines, and we would hold our scripts and we would dance around and we would have a party.”<\/p>\n

But she said that Daniels always knew his lines, and “rarely needed a script in his hand.”<\/p>\n

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“He knew what he was doing,” she explained. “And he very easily could have talked down to us or dismissed us as being those 12-year-olds. And he never did that.”<\/p>\n

Daniels always treated his young castmates with “respect” and as a “peer,” she added.\u00a0<\/p>\n

She noted that Daniels had already won two Emmys for “St. Elsewhere<\/a>” when he started on “Boy Meets World.” “And yet he was treating 12-year-old me with no experience like his peer. And I don’t think he realized as a kid how special that is, but you do as an adult.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

“I have thought about him on every set I’ve been on, both as an actor and as a director since the day I met him,” she added.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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