00:00I love playing pretend, and I love dressing up.
00:02I think the moment that made me realize I wanted to become a performer was when I realized that I'm a selfish asshole with a big ego.
00:09The moment I jumped out of my mom.
00:11I think I came out of the womb singing.
00:13When I was like seven years old, I heard Stevie Nicks for the first time, and I cried.
00:18When I was singing in front of my whole class, we had to do the smoke-free commercial, and of course I came up with the rap, killed it.
00:23I was singing at my grandfather's church, and the first line.
00:27I was born by the river.
00:31I sung that, and the whole place just erupted.
00:34I was cast as Charlie Brown in grade four.
00:39Went on a date to the movie theaters, and I'll never forget being so moved.
00:44I may or may not have cried.
00:46I just kind of fell in love with these fantastic plays, such in-depth and interesting people and characters.
00:54I would watch these films, and I didn't really understand what actors were doing up there on the screen at the time, but I just had a sense that these characters felt like people who were finally being honest.
01:06I was doing a play, and you had to go downstairs to the costume shop, and it was just the most exciting day during camp.
01:13I think I kind of just grew up adoring being the center of attention.
01:16I think it really comes down to just being like an attention whore.
01:20My dad and just my whole entire family, they're all artists.
01:24My dad used to work a lot, but I used to go to the movies every Friday with him when he got off work, and we'd go see a movie, and it was just that moment of sitting in the theater and having that experience.
01:33Truly, as a kid, just making people laugh was my favorite thing.
01:35I realized I took a lot of pride in making people laugh, especially my mom.
01:40That sounds so cheesy.
01:41Wicked was in town, and I remembered watching The Wizard singing Wonderful, and I thought to myself, I want to be that man someday.
01:49I did a play, and the writer of the book came to see our little show in our little church, and he said, I think you should take this seriously.
01:56Seeing Billy Crystal do his 700 Sunday show as a kid when I was in Boston.
02:00I was four years old, and I was in this Christmas carol, and I was like, you know what would be fun? If I just started moonwalking.
02:06I was in third grade, and I realized I loved making people laugh and being on stage.
02:13It really sealed the deal for me was Brandy Whitney Cinderella, and I would just watch it, watch it, watch it, and then the tape melted.
02:18I don't think there was any particular moment that I knew.
02:22There's never been like a sandstone moment.
02:23When I was like a kid with my sisters, we would make like iMovie movies together and like photo booth movies.
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