Once I started doing stand-up, everything fell into place. That was when I started acting more; I felt like I'd found my place in the business.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Stand-up is the foundation to my career. It's what I started out doing.
I was at college doing performing arts, and just spending all my time mucking about, and the lecturers thought I would be pretty good at stand-up, so I gave it a whirl.
The best part about stand-up is that you control everything. Period. When you work in movies, or on TV shows, there are 50 other people involved.
When I went to college, I did clothing and textiles. It really wasn't until I moved to New York, my second night in, I did stand-up. I took a wild left turn, and instead of going back and finishing school at FIT, I started doing stand-up and acting.
I didn't really like the aloneness of doing stand-up.
I left school and couldn't find acting work, so I started going to clubs where you could do stand-up. I've always improvised, and stand-up was this great release. All of a sudden, it was just me and the audience.
I started doing stand-up in college.
To me, the stand up part in my life is great. I know I can do that. When I get an acting chance, I'm really thrilled.
I started doing standup when I was in college, and I would incorporate a lot of characters into my act.
I've never done stand-up; I came via small-scale touring theatre, through the Royal Shakespeare Company, the National Theatre, then I got employed on that as an actor who had a humorous sensibility.