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I first wanted to be an actress after seeing a play - not a movie.

I was a freshman and auditioned for the school play. Freshmen usually never got cast. I was the first freshman to be actually given a legitimate part and it was that feeling of 'Wow! I broke the system!'

As I got older, I auditioned for drama school and shocked myself by getting in.

When I auditioned for 'Animal House,' I had only done some plays at a local dinner theater in Virginia.

I had never auditioned for Broadway - any play - and I was not familiar with what you're supposed to do.

So I was determined to use my last two years in college doing something I thought I would enjoy, which was acting. And it was probably because there was girls over in the drama school too, you know?

The theater is where I belonged; I simply wanted to be an actress my whole life.

I play-acted and started performing, which just logically led to doing it in school, which led to studying it in college, which led to auditioning to the showcase in New York. And then I had an agent, and I was an actress.

It wasn't until I got into seventh grade, I think, that I realized that doing plays might be a fun thing, and so I auditioned for the school play - and got in, as it turned out.