One of the difficulties of a job in the, quote, 'real world' is you don't really get time to shut yourself off in a room and think.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Please don't think that I am one of those squishy types who can't handle reality. I have plenty of real-world things to deal with all the time. I have deadlines, meetings, I answer the phone, I get turned down, I wait in lines and am forced to pass for normal all the time.
When you are in a room and your job is to write jokes 10 hours a day, your mind starts going to strange places.
That's why I love theatre, because things happen in the moment. I think you work without being conscious that you're working.
I spend shockingly little time thinking about real-world stuff.
Eventually, I just couldn't imagine myself being in a cubicle for my entire career.
It's hard to spend years at a time working in total solitude with no reality-check.
I think there's something about being absolutely at the height of intensity at almost every moment of one's job that makes it a lot easier if you don't have time to think much, just sort of barrel through the next crisis.
Don't think about work in your bedroom or relaxation area.
It's kind of hard when you're on the road all the time, from one show to the next, from one hotel room to the next hotel room, it's kind of hard to think about everything.
If I'm not doing something or working on something, I literally just sit in the room and think, which I don't think is productive. I won't go outside for days.