Back in eighth grade, I'd seen nothing but small-town Georgia when I left the U.S. for the first time and went to Hong Kong, Taiwan and Mainland China.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
It's been really nice to see different counties that I might never have visited before.
China, hidden and mysterious, has always interested me.
In order for me to write a scene, it's very important for me to see and experience everything with my own eyes, so yes, I was able to visit some remarkable houses and destinations while I was in China.
Georgia was a great place to live, but I wanted to get out because I knew the opportunities for what I was doing - stand-up comedy and eventually acting - were in Los Angeles.
I went to the Gobi Desert, even though I had no scenes there. This is the greatness of China, the landscape, even for us.
Once I became interested in China, I flew to Beijing in 1996 to spend half a year studying Mandarin. The city stunned me.
I've seen a lot of the United States, having stayed in so many different cities and towns for work.
You live overseas, you see these exotic places and you want to know about them. But, weirdly, it also made me homesick for all these very prosaic places in America.
I used to go missing a lot... Miss Canada, Miss United Kingdom, Miss World.
The most interesting place I've gone on location was New Orleans.