When I get to go play in my hometown, it's almost one of the toughest times because I got so many people to cater to and then a lot of people that think they're supposed to be catered to.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It's always so nerve-wracking being up there on stage. It's even harder playing in your hometown - and I have a couple of home towns - but, you're playing for all the people you knew in high school, so it causes no small degree of panic in my mind.
This is a group playing together and that's the only way, I feel, this play can be successful and moving. I am so lucky to have the people that are in it. When I came here I didn't know who was going to be in the play.
If you aren't playing well, the game isn't as much fun. When that happens I tell myself just to go out and play as I did when I was a kid.
I had done a lot of plays, particularly at my own theater in LA, and it was the first time in my theatrical life where I didn't feel that my role was also to keep everybody else working hard.
When I did play, I tried to make the most of it.
The desire to play has always been in me. I remember my first experience at about four or five of really dying to sing and dying to play that came from no one telling me to do so.
I never get used to going out and seeing 20, 30,000 people that are there to see us play. It's kind of surreal.
I've played so many moms, best friends, sisters and understanding people.
I think it's easy to enjoy anywhere that you play where you feel like you got a chance to win a lot.
Whenever there is a big game and people don't think I can do it, I always play my hardest, and now it has become a part of me.