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Once I moved to Chicago and started trying to get acting jobs, I just tended to book more things that were comedically based than anything else. I never had the preconceived notion, 'I will be a comedic actor.' I just thought, 'I'll go into acting and see what kind of work I can get.'

Although I grew up around movies, I don't know that I assumed I was going to be an actor.

I became an actor by accident. I suppose I figured since I was in musical comedy from the time I was a teenager, I suppose I figured that I'd always been in that world to some extent.

I'm a comedian who got into movies, so I don't really think of myself as an actor.

Sometimes people know I am an actor but are not really sure what I have been in.

I'm an actor. I started as an actor. I started on Broadway doing 'Hair' and Shakespeare in the Park.

When I first started acting, I started in opera and had a great desire to play grand, tragic characters. I got sidetracked in musical theater and ended up doing a lot of comedy.

I got into musical comedy because of Shakespeare, not because of singing. They needed someone to understudy Richard Burton. I was also going to musical auditions because the agent I had insisted I go to them.

Being an actor means being an instrument for someone else. I want to give myself completely.