While I was growing up all over, in all my different schools, I was always doing theater, auditioning for plays.
I was a bit of a show-off in school and loved playing dress-up, and my passion for it just grew as I got older.
There was no male vampire type in existence. Someone suggested an actor of the Continental School who could play any type, and mentioned me.
I'd always loved strings. When I was in high school and saw strings playing on stage, an orchestra or a symphony, all those bows moving at the same time... wow.
A lot of high school students on TV and in Broadway are played by people in their late 20s and even early 30s. That seems weird to me.
I have been a performer for as long as I can remember. I performed in Sunday school and church plays.
Well, I've never been in a touring rock band, it was all just high school and college, playing toga parties in frat houses.
I never had a real job either. I sort of fell out of school and ended up playing guitar.
I took a writing class in college, liked it, and my first year out of school I couldn't get a job, so I wrote a play.
I grew up in a utopia, I did. California when I was a child was a child's paradise, I was healthy, well fed, well clothed, well housed. I went to school and there were libraries with all the world in them and after school I played in orange groves an...
How did he keep playing when money got really tight, and there was no more food in the house? How did he play on when it became clear he was flunking out of school? Was music really enough when the whole world seemed to be collapsing around him? Or w...
As a kid, we had one television channel and a sad little roller rink. And there was not much else to do. So I used my imagination all of the time growing up. That's the main way I played. When we moved and I went to high school, I did my first play, ...
I always knew I would sing. I just didn't know if I would be successful or not. But I sang at school, I sang at parties, I sang at church. Everyone always asked me to sing. I'd be playing football with my friends, and my parents would ask me to sing ...
I was like the class clown in school so I guess I would say I did like the attention. In church I did a lot of plays, my mother made me play characters, do a lot of drama and acting, trying to become someone else. So it helped me create who I am, to ...
I was very close to my father. At the age of ten I wanted to do plays, and my father was very encouraging. When I applied to different acting schools, he was right there and very supportive.
I have been looking forward to this age of my life for a long time. In my twenties, I marked the days on the calendar - I was sick of playing high-school kids.
My stepdad provided me with an amazing childhood. I played outside like a normal kid, I rode my bike, I walked to school, but the happiest times were when I was acting.
School plays were invented partly to give parents and easy opportunity to demonstrate their priorities.
I would play hooky from school and spend all day in the movie theaters. Consequently, I learned satire in all its subtle forms.
I was playing rugby and the other games English school children do, and there was an event in which races were run, and I won these by a considerable margin.
And it was where I learned how to play tennis and eventually became captain of the tennis team at the school and was on the Junior Davis Cup in New York City.
