In my family, in the days prior to television, we liked to while away the evenings by making ourselves miserable, solely based on our ability to speak the language viciously.
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I grew up in a house where there was lots of teasing and language play and laughter; it was very important. When I was a teenager, you wouldn't go to a bar and find lots of televisions everywhere. People were talking. Talk was the mental fire you would gather around in the evening. It occupied a big part of your existence.
I certainly don't walk around my home or being with my family and just using profane language all the time, but on stage, it's a constant.
In my 10 years that I spent out in TV and film, I had my shares of frustrations and annoyances and disappointments, but also I think it was, in the long run, it was very good for me in a whole bunch of ways.
The radio was my big influence. Comedy came from the instinctual feel I had for language.
When I was a kid, I resented my grandparents not speaking the perfect English I wanted to speak.
The fact that my mother was on television every week while I was young was occasionally awkward, and often frustrating.
I've worked in television long enough to know that when you stop enjoying that type of thing you go home and do something else.
I was raised by television. It was my first cultural window. It was a constant companion.
I've come to terms with the fact that if you're on TV, lots of people like you and lots of people hate you, and once you're OK with that, you apply it to everything.
I was raised in a family where none of us ever raised a voice, so there was no room to express feelings of rage or even unabashed joy - a little bashed joy, here or there, or being mildly disgruntled.