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When I started out I was a failed actor.

I was a failed actor, but for 25 years, I got to go on stage anyway, and I loved it. I've still got the day job, and the travel bug.

I knew I wanted to try comedy and acting. Even if I failed, at least I would have tried. It's better than never having tried.

I really was a terrible actor. I did it for years in my twenties because it was like being at university again.

I was an actor before becoming a comedian.

I eventually became an actor, starting with doing stand-up comedy in New York and then theater wherever they would let me. Finally, I moved out here to Los Angeles and got on a show.

So the only things I was being allowed to audition for were small roles in comedies. It broke my heart. No one would see me for anything else. I knew, in order to open up my career, I had to leave or that's all I would ever be given.

I never wanted to be an actor. I got stuck in it and kind of liked what I was doing.

I came to acting quite late. I tried not to be an actor.

I never really wanted to be an actor. And that was the beginning of it, I began to write things down and eventually became a writer on a television show.