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While I was growing up all over, in all my different schools, I was always doing theater, auditioning for plays.

I've been performing since I was a child; my mother would have to pull me aside and tell me that I wasn't onstage. I was a cheerleader, president of choir, and in the school play.

I was in a lot of school plays, and it became the thing I did.

I started out really into musical theater. So you can imagine I was super popular. I wasn't awkward looking at all.

I always, always meant to be on stage. I only ended up even auditioning for television and movies because I was understudying a Turgenev play on Broadway and was so broke that, when I got a mini-series, I had to take it and was so ashamed because I was such a snob.

I always wanted to perform. I remember being 5 years old and telling my parents to sit down as I was going to put on a play for them.

When I was growing up, I was always on stage but I loved other things.

I started acting because I enjoyed school plays.

I liked being on stage; I just didn't like the theatrical aspect of being in front of people.

I did a lot of theater when I was in high school and college. I also did stand-up in college, so it was always part of what I did.