Chelsea Peretti Quotes

My first time performing was in the black box theater of my high school's basement as a member of 'Clownaz,' the school's improv team. We charged money for tickets, saying the proceeds went to our school's recycling program. Then, immediately after the show, we divided up all the money and kept it.

I didn't take theater or anything. We didn't have a very good theater program. It was in western Utah - was a really small school. It wasn't developed. We didn't have the funds to do anything like that, but I did act all through high school in films because Disney Channel would shoot movies out there.

I was a tomboy and most of my close friends were male.

Those are the men who will dance at your wedding.

My father used to act in high school. He was in a production of 'Othello;' I don't know who he played, but it wasn't Othello. He would talk about it, though, and read Shakespeare to me.

I was a huge nerd in high school. Sure, I socialized - but I was definitely a nerd.

I'd say a good couple of my closest male friends are directors.

I had a great time in high school. I really did. I went to a private Christian high school and I graduated in a class of 67 kids, so it was pretty small, and I knew and loved everybody.

I think there should be a good balance between being a good student and being able to enjoy your high school life.

There was a small window when I wanted to be an astronaut. It may have coincided with not getting cast in a high school play.

I love going to football games and going to homecoming dances and just doing normal things.

I kind of did this thing in high school, a spoof of 'Sweeney Todd' called 'Shirley Todd,' and I had a great time doing that.

In high school, I did the 'The Tempest' at Lincoln Center for Joe Papp.

My brother and I did theater in high school, and were both in Pennsylvania Youth Theatre. It was awesome. When you go to Los Angeles, it's a rough city, and it's hard. You drive around in your car in your own little bubble, and there's tons of rejection. Being from the Lehigh Valley helped because it was something so stable.

I went to a Jesuit boys high school, Rockhurst High School.

When I was in high school, I was so in love - as I should have been - with the performance aspect of theater and just the literal act of performing.

I have many close male friends.

I did three musicals in high school.

My girlfriends are my life, but I'm also one of those girls who can hang out with the guys.

Acting has been my passion from the minute I started. I was pretty young when I wanted to be a doctor, but when I started doing theater work as a freshman in high school, the first time I hit the stage I was like, If I can do this every day, life won't get any better!

I went with my husband and an innocent child to California. I went to a theatrical manager and asked him to allow me to earn money enough on the stage to buy our tickets home. He did.

You know how in high school you do these plays and people come up after the show and they're really excited for you? Well, that's what's happening to me right now.

I love musicals, I started acting because I wanted to be in a musical.

Every time I go out in London, I'm not always with my guys. I have three female friends that I'll go out with all the time. I'm the only guy there.

Most of the theater I've done in the past was when I was a kid or a teenager so it feels like being a kid again. I'm happier than I've ever been. You really get to go to work every day and play, and try different things. I don't know, I've never felt so lucky to do this job. So I hope to do a lot more theater.