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I always performed as a kid to make my family laugh and was more concerned with making kids at school laugh than I was about the lessons.

Sometimes there's one person in the audience laughing hysterically, and it's so much fun. You end up playing the entire play to them.

Honestly, I was a good kid but I figured out pretty early that I had a gift for making people laugh. I wanted to entertain and when that happens you tend to get yourself in trouble in class.

I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.

I was in a play in elementary school and had to jump up and run away. I was nervous and tripped and fell down and everyone laughed. Their laughter made me relax, so I pretended it was part of the show.

And I began to tell little anecdotes that had happened to me, and people would laugh. And I began to like that, you know. But I knew that, 'cause I'd do that in school, but I wouldn't do it out there in front of all them people.

If I'm in a serious play, I often think to myself, 'I could make that line funny.'

Somewhere around the fifth or seventh grade I figured out that I could ingratiate myself to people by making them laugh. Essentially, I was just trying to make them like me. But after a while it became part of my identity.

I was always trying to do things to make school fun.