If I'm a game show host, will someone buy a ticket to see me do standup? To do a dramatic role in a movie?
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I think people will be curious to see what I can do as a dramatic actor.
Every show I play, whether it's for an audience of 15,000 or 50, I look at it as a party, and I'm the host.
I don't really like doing big stand-up. Whenever I do theaters, I don't like 'em. I don't think they're right for stand-up. I've seen people in theaters, and it just doesn't work, because you're talking to the guy next to you the whole time.
As an actor, I'll play anything.
With stand-up you've just got that one chance. Audiences can be quite fickle.
I'm really not interested in showing me or playing me. My gift as an actor, given to me, is to be able to become other people.
I think, as an actress, whether you want to or not, whether you're ready for it or not, people are going to look at what you're doing, and they are going to look up to you, and it's not even really about you; it's who you portray on the screen.
When I want to support a film starring actors I like, I purchase several tickets at the box office - even if I can't stay for the movie.
If I have any audience, they can know that anything I am in, I would go see, with the expectation of being really satisfied.
I think certainly after every show I headline, I will be available to the fans. When I'm headlining a show, I don't walk off stage. I'll walk to the front of the stage and sign hats and shirts and tickets for 15 to 30 minutes, until everyone has everything signed.