I was about 29 or 30, and I started writing monologues for myself. I felt I got more immediate encouragement from that than I ever had in acting.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I took acting lessons when I was 19, 20, and I had my writing.
I didn't actually begin professionally acting until I was 30.
I had to audition as an actor, and I got so tired of doing the same monologues over and over, so I started writing my own, and then I started selling them to other actors.
That's how I learned how to act. I learned by doing it. I didn't start acting until I was 37.
I started acting professionally at age 19.
I was 36, and I had decided to quit acting because it was so disappointing.
I had written a story. I wrote the story out of some desperation, really, and I didn't know I was writing a story, and it took me years. And when I finished, a friend of mine had the idea that the story should be read as a monologue in a theater.
At the age of 15 I began my singing lessons, and once I became a professional performer, I dove into acting.
I was 22 and stopped writing plays, and I didn't start again until I was 25. I was writing badly. In college, I attempted to write these more conventional plays, but the theater I loved was downtown experimental theater. I didn't feel like I could do that either. It didn't occur to me to do my own thing.
I started acting when I was, like, five in monologue competitions at this private elementary school.