I began thinking I would do musical theater because in high school that was really the only sort of curriculum they had as far as getting onstage and doing anything that anybody would see. So that's what I did.
I have been working professionally in the entertainment industry since I was six.
When I was at school, I was terrible at algebra and arithmetic, but I was always the best at English and literature. And acting, of course.
When I was growing up as a little girl and as a teenager, I loved designing and making dogs' clothes and wanting to be a fashion designer. I took art and ceramics. I loved dance.
I majored in theater. I did plays. But musicals were not my thing.
We're not doing brain surgery. We're not saving lives... Even if you're doing Shakespeare, it's still entertainment. We're just entertaining people. We're just doing the stuff that comes on in between the ads.
Acting was something that I grew up just doing. I certainly never thought about it.
I grew up in Northern California, and theater is all there was. I didn't know how to go about starting a career when I was 10.
I mean, certainly writing, painting, photography, dance, architecture, there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that merges into film in some way.
Except theatre, there is no medium which can satisfy good artistes in India.
My family was never cultural in that we never went to see plays, my mum wasn't very into films.
Acting has always been very boring to me. Anyone not in television to become a millionaire is a simpleton.
The first presentation of my show was given in May, 1883, at Omaha, which I had then chosen as my home. From there we made our first summer tour, visiting practically every important city in the country.
My father is a university professor so when the schools needed a little kid for their productions I was often the kid they used. The first time I was ever on stage was about 2nd grade.
I know the musical world as well as I know the comedy world.
I'm proud to be an actor. See, as an actor, you live longer. Football players, the brain and all that stuff, ooh-eee, that's not good.
But I majored in Drama, modified with Psychology.
I'm an entertainer. I love to fight.
For the first 25 years of my career, I did nothing but sing and dance.
When I was still a student, I came out of a performing arts high school, and the female students who were doing traditional dance and ballet were so beautiful. They were beautiful, starting from their postures.
I always wanted to be an actor, so I began to prepare myself for a career in acting. I did a course at Kishore Namit Kapoor's acting school. I was with Shiamak Davar's dance school and also did theatre with Nadira Babbar.
I've always wanted to get into acting, ever since I was younger. I'd put on shows for my family and run around play dress-up all the time. I think I was 4 when I told them I wanted to do movies.
If I had planned to be a singer, I would have got trained. In fact, I was more into theatre and plays while growing up.
Cheryl's artistically inclined. She draws and sketches, but I don't know about acting.
I did a musical when I was 17, an amateur show, and I loved it.
