Ferris Bueller once took a day off from high school and it was such a breeze. After all, what teenager would not want to ditch a day of school to hang out with their best friend, an attractive member of the opposite sex and cruise around town in a flashy sports car? If only Miley Stewart had it so easy!

Oh, how Miley Stewart is so in need of some time off after juggling school, friends and a secret pop-star persona named Hannah Montana! What is a young, teenaged starlet living in Hollywood while also going to school to do? Take a day off like Ferris Bueller did, of course!

Okay, so perhaps Robby Ray did not have Ferris Bueller’s Day Off on his mind when he decided to take his daughter back to their hometown of Crawley Corners, Tennessee for some much-needed R & R, but he was certainly on the right track in forcing Miley Stewart to pause her overwhelming lifestyle.

Balancing the typical high school life of Stewart with the pop-sensation phenomenon of Montana clearly was no easy task for anyone, but it is a task Miley Cyrus understands all too well. Playing the two conflicted personalities in Hanna Montana: The Movie, Cyrus says the Walt Disney Picture production does a good job of promoting balance in one’s life.

“The cool thing about the movie is that we got to take away from the persona a little bit. It’s not so separate,” Cyrus told Buzzine about the similarities between Miley Stewart and Hannah Montana, and the need to avoid one personality clashing with the other. “It shows that, realistically, you are not going to be able to maintain this double life and keep them separate as you want.”

As Robby Ray (Billy Ray Cyrus — Miley’s father in real life and in the movie) takes Miley Stewart to Tennessee to remind his fictional daughter of her roots, the real daughter echoed similar sentiments during her talk with Buzzine, adding it is important for one to realize who they truly are.

“As much as Miley changes and as much as Hannah changes, it’s all the same person,” Cyrus candidly said. “The reason she has this double life is so she does not become that person -– not obsesses with material things and not obsesses with Hollywood and what she’s become. I do have a lot going on, but it’s important to bring it back to who you are, your friends, (and) your family.”

In trying to keep both lives separate –- both on and off the screen –- Cyrus added her fans must know when to separate the character she plays on the screen from the real life she lives. While she loves her fans and promotes them to know their real selves, she wants them to remember who Miley Cyrus is…and she is not always going to be Miley Stewart or Hannah Montana. Just like Hannah Montana: The Movie preaches, Cyrus wants her real life to be simple and separate from the glamour and madness of her fictional persona.

“I feel like the hardest thing about dealing with all the things I go through with paparazzi and stuff is that people need to remember that I am a real person,” the 16-year-old singer and actress said. “People forget that sometimes. People forget privacy and respect. I think this movie and everything about it is going to prove (the realness). I can’t help it if there are 40 photographers outside my house. I try to keep my life as private as I can. I really don’t do what I do for the attention. If I knew, coming into this, all those people would be hanging outside my house, I would’ve given myself a second thought.”

Yet, she still loves the career choice she made and will not trade it for the world –- or the universe, for that matter. She explicitly echoed such thoughts when asked what words of advise she has for young kids who have aspirations to make it big in entertainment, proclaiming, “I say be a freak and go to Hollywood!”

In fact, the young actress added she wants to expand her career beyond the character she regularly plays on the Disney Channel, perhaps taking her career international.

“Every actor wants to hit … every angle of art,” Cyrus said when asked about whether she would return to the character and if she wanted to go global. “I’ve been playing the (Hannah Montana) character for four years now, so it’s natural for me to want to play something different. I don’t know if we want to do another film, but we definitely would love to do another season (of the television show). When the time is right, I’ll be able to do those things.”

However, even though Cyrus loves what she does, she also warned against loving one’s career choice too much –- otherwise you will be consumed by your passion. “There’s a difference between loving your job and living only for your job,” Cyrus candidly said. “People will always say I am overworking and overexposed and all I want is the attention, but that’s not what I want. It’s the art of it all (that I really want). Right now, I really am grateful for what I do, and I really do care about the fans.”

In the midst of it all, Cyrus hopes the life she lives in real life parallels the message of her first major film, which is set to release today. Indeed, Cyrus does not mind her or her characters (Hannah Montana, Miley Stewart) serving as a role model for others her age or younger. Yet, just like her character needed some time away from Hollywood to keep her fictional persona from taking over the real person, she hopes her fans will separate treating Cyrus as a role model and as an idol.

“They are two different things,” she candidly said, adding by treating her as an idol, the message of Hannah Montana: The Movie is lost. “If you look at me as a role model, I agree with it. If you look at me as an idol, I don’t (agree). An idol is someone you want to replicate. You want to be them. I don’t wish that upon anyone — to lose what they have personally, because that’s when your spark is lost.”

Cyrus may not want to be an idol, and she may be okay with being a role model, but one thing she definitely wants to be is herself. After all, if she does not promote being true to yourself in real life, she certainly would not be able to preach the same in Hannah Montana: The Movie.

“I think what people like about me and the way they relate to me is that I don’t try to change,” Cyrus said, pointing out the message of Hanna Montana: The Movie is essentially about not changing who you are in real life. “I haven’t let what I do for a living become my life. What I do personally in my life is not necessarily to be recorded, but it doesn’t mean it’s not going to be. I’m going to make mistakes and I would not trade that for anything. The minute you stop making mistakes is the minute you stop learning. If I ever stop doing that, we’re all in trouble.”

Of course, failing to watch Hanna Montana: The Movie this weekend may get you in trouble with Cyrus. The Disney production hits big screens today and features 12 brand-new songs and is Rated G. Running time is 102 minutes.