My playground was the theatre. I'd sit and watch my mother pretend for a living. As a young girl, that's pretty seductive.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
When I was little, there were so many people in my house. Everyone was enjoying themselves, rehearsing, having fun. It was like a playground.
I wouldn't just come home from school and watch TV everyday, they had me involved in lots of local theatre. I was a very dramatic, talkative child. And that was part of my mother's creative solution - to put me in workshops and classes and children's theatre programmes.
We didn't have a backyard, so as I child, I would turn the coffee table into a stage and put on shows. But it was just a fun thing to do; I never thought about it as a profession. That started as a fluke; my mother had a friend who was an artist with a theater company, and I started going there after school because my mom knew I'd be safe.
I'd auditioned for the National Youth Theatre and I didn't get a place and it was terrifying.
I always loved to entertain and show off in front of the neighbors. I would sing and dance at their houses.
My parents were always involved in community theatre, and I'd do the tech work and play the child.
My parents were involved in community theater in New Jersey. Instead of hiring a baby sitter, they would take me with them. So my love of acting seeped in from watching my parents and seeing them having fun.
If I didn't have kids, I would be at the theater or the ballet every single night of my life.
I've hung out at dozens of playgrounds, bored out of my mind, with not even a look of comfort from disapproving mothers all around me. Either they think I'm a pedophile or a deadbeat dad. That's what I get for being a single dad - suspicious looks at the playground.
I like to turn the venue into a jungle gym, into my playground.