The immediacy of improvisation is intoxicating, but there's an intimacy that you get that's very different when you're doing drama.
There's a very famous South African playwright named Athol Fugard, and I'd be in any play he's ever did.
If you look at any successful skit comedy show, ever, there is that format of introducing you to the player in the beginning, and then going on to see those sketches.
I was raised Catholic, so guilt shackles you from acting like a complete fool all the time.
Being a Lions fan is like being a Cubs fan: you just have to keep going. You don't have a choice. You can't give up, because one day, when it happens - and I believe it'll happen - then you can really savor it because you were there in the doldrums, and you get to be there in the victory.
I'm very concerned with what's going on the news, but I would not call myself a political animal, per se. I pay more attention during election years, or if I see some topic or issue that I care about. But I would never call myself a political animal or political junkie.
