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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.

I never really wanted to write and wanted to focus on acting.

Although my other ambition was to be a musical theater star (and I would attend college on a voice scholarship), writing was never far from my mind.

I was a writer. I just wasn't a very good one. I was lucky enough to have a playwriting teacher who told me that I'd be a better actor than I would a playwright.

I consider myself a writer. I always wanted to act, and as a teen, I studied acting devotedly. Eventually, I got writing work, but very little acting work.

I started acting when I was in high school, started writing when I got to New York in 1975.

In reality, I've always been an actor - since I was a kid. I did theater growing up in New York. I was always in the plays in school. I was either going to be an actor or an athlete or a soldier. Those were kind of the three paths that I always kind of embarked on.

Everything I learned as an actor, I have basically applied to writing.

In high school, my goal was to be a writer for SNL, then I got into the acting.