I walked onstage in a play at prep school, and with childish naivete, told myself, 'Wow, I'm an actor!'
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I was so naive when I began acting, professionally.
When I'm onstage, I'm acting.
Sometimes people know I am an actor but are not really sure what I have been in.
Through theater and acting school, I found a way to articulate myself.
I never even thought about being an actor. Somebody asked me if I'd like to learn the craft, and I said, 'Okay.' I was a gymnast in a show at that time, and somebody asked me afterwards one night. I performed as a gymnast for nine years, and then I did acting after that.
Anytime I met an actor, I just attacked them and said, 'How did you do this?' Eventually, I began to realize that you went to school for it. I wasn't a bright kid, so it took me a long time to figure that out.
I'm not entirely comfortable saying I'm an actor, because it seems like a very weird, almost dorky thing to say you are.
I'm not someone who went to acting school - I was just out of the gate, doing it.
At school, I was the classroom clown - I was always being thrown out for being naughty. Before I left, a teacher called me in and suggested I became an actor.
I realized early on I was not an actor. And it was a great thing to have that realization. To see actors and see what that talent is... it wasn't me.