A lot of the traditional sitcom stuff I did - I think I could have gone that route when I was younger as a staff writer, and I just didn't want to.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
To be honest, I would never have imagined myself acting on a sitcom that I didn't write.
I had done the sitcom thing to lesser and lesser degrees of success.
I couldn't see myself doing a traditional sitcom.
I started writing sketches with Dennis Kelly, who I ended up writing 'Pulling' with. We entered a BBC competition and did quite well, then started writing bits for other people's shows. You wheedle your way in, write pilots and eventually you end up writing a sitcom.
I would never do another sitcom. It was so boring I wanted to pull my fingernails off.
When I first started out, I kinda just wanted to do comedy stuff, and thankfully, I had a fair amount of success. I've been able to be on, I think, almost virtually every American sitcom.
I didn't want to do the sitcom thing, but I didn't know what else to do.
When I was younger and studying acting, I never ever saw myself in the sitcom world; it was drama that really turned me on and still does.
I decided sitcoms weren't for me.
I loved doing sitcoms.