I was a repertory actor, which meant that I did a play every week. I was a different character every week; for a year, I was doing 40 or 50 characters.
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I was an actor for over a year before I ever saw a play.
I've always been short and stocky. So when I got into repertory theatre after graduation, I found myself doing character roles: because of my deep voice, shape and height, I was playing 40-year-old, 50-year-old roles at the age of 23.
I came out of repertory theater, where I worked 50 weeks a year, and I loved working with the people.
I always considered myself as a character actor. I always try to be versatile to show different sides of human experience.
Having done a lot of theater, I'm used to sustaining characters over long periods of time.
I've always considered myself a character actor. That's the way I was trained, really.
The only reason my work seems to be eclectic up to a certain period is because I was a failure as an actor.
I went to a lot of theatre schools, got a lot of training, did a lot of repertory where you do a different play every night. I took a lot of voice, movement, and acting classes.
From being a writer of plays, it was not that surprising that somebody thought of giving me a job as an actor. After I played one part, others came along.
I've always considered myself a character actor.
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