In high school, my goal was to be a writer for SNL, then I got into the acting.
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I definitely knew I wanted to be an actor in high school. I was doing plays and musicals, and I loved 'Saturday Night Live' and thought that was what I wanted to do - funny sketches and comedies. So I knew then, but I didn't know how to go about it, but I found my way.
I started acting when I was in high school, started writing when I got to New York in 1975.
I had done some commercial work in junior high and stuff - my mother would bring me into the city, and we'd go on these crazy castings. Acting was something I always dreamed of doing... it was my passion when I was young.
I was very vocal about what I wanted to do at a very young age. I wanted to be inside of the television set. I didn't know being on TV was being an actor.
I was a kid who went to film school and fell into acting.
I started writing because I wasn't getting things as an actor.
It wasn't until my senior year in high school that I started acting.
I studied theater in college, and I really wanted to be an actress and play a lot of different roles. Then I made landing on a television comedy my main focus.
I never wrote. I also never really thought about being an actor. But when it was time to go to high school, we couldn't afford private school, so I tried out for all the special schools in New York.
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.