“I never felt cool growing up. I was a bit of an outsider, but I discovered theatre very early on, which got me through.”
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Mental illness is the last frontier. The gay thing is part of everyday life now on a show like 'Modern Family, ' but mental illness is still full of stigma. Maybe it is time for that to change.
That's an amazing feeling, to walk onstage, and you're not thinking about anything, you're not thinking about your lines or what you're supposed to do - your body, your brain knows, so there's freedom. There's not fear, there's not nerves.
I'm not hip, I'm not cool, I'm not glib.
My family moved - first to Washington, D.C., and then, in the spring of 1975, to Lebanon, where my father worked as a diplomat at the American embassy. My parents were enthusiastic about the move, so my older brother and I felt like we were off to some place kind of cool.