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I always loved acting and improv and sketch comedy and theater, which I did at a local youth theater.

I grew up seeing a lot of theatre, and it was theatre that really seduced me into acting - not film or television.

I also loved musicals because I was a dancer.

I always was drawn to the performing arts. I started dancing when I was two. I sang, loved to act, and loved going to visit my mom on-set. But she wanted me to have a normal childhood, so I wasn't really allowed to pursue acting till I got older.

I was very interested in vaudeville. It was the only sort of discipline that was a five-minute act on stage, which is what I really enjoyed and saw myself doing. And I bought books on it.

When I was younger, acting, singing, and dancing was what it was all about.

I used to watch a lot of musicals as a kid. Musical movies, not so much musical theater.

I did some theater as a kid for fun. But it was really by chance that I landed into acting.

I've loved musical theater ever since I was a kid. My mother's a pianist, and my grandfather was an amateur theater director and stand-up comic. And I was an only child. And I loved attention. So from an early age, my family was teaching old musical songs.

I started to do theater when I was a little boy at school, and then, I think because my father was a documentary filmmaker and worked for German television, I was of course fascinated by what he did.