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My parents were always involved in community theatre, and I'd do the tech work and play the child.
Yeah, well I've always played comedy. My background is musical comedy theatre and that's really where my training is. As an actor, that's my training.
When you know that people know who you are, you are always working - and not the work you want to do. You are sort of performing, because you know they are looking - or at least glancing - at you.
I came out of repertory theater, where I worked 50 weeks a year, and I loved working with the people.
To do it on film, where it'll be seen by more people than have seen the play since it was written, it humbles you.
There comes a place where you need to respect. When people are speaking, you don't comment.
See, there were certain rules I'd always used, and people like Trane, they would break those rules.
At the end of the whole day of working with people you want some privacy.
After working for TV, you realise that the majority of the population still wonders where their next meal is coming from.