I was quite young when I went to a drama workshop. I was around 9 or 10. I showed interest in it. I never saw it as a career. At around 16, I knew what I wanted to do.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I did a lot of acting at school and university, then I went to drama school. It was quite a normal route.
I thought I'd be doing theater, really. That's all I had experience with growing up. I mean, I saw movies and television, but I don't think I really connected at a young age that that was acting, that that was part of the profession.
I started working on stage as a dancer when I was four; by 14 or 15, I knew I wanted to study the craft of acting.
I started really young, like 12 or 13, and then I started doing school plays. We had a really good drama department, so the kind of drama-geek stigma wasn't really there in my high school.
As a teenager, I was really interested in drama and art. I did painting and drawing. I did some acting and loved theater.
I did all sorts of jobs after drama school - working in a bar, as a teaching assistant. I probably learned as much from them as I did at drama school.
I always wanted to be an actor, even as a little kid. So I went to drama school in the late '60s at Carnegie Mellon.
I didn't start drama school until I was 20, and I don't think I would have gotten nearly as much out of it had I gone when I was 18.
I started at drama school at 18.
I started theater when I was three, and I started doing professional acting when I was nine.