You have been told that Real Life is not like college, and you have been correctly informed. Real Life is more like high school.
I would say, don't smoke. I'm kidding, but yeah, I did smoke in college and as a young actor and it's stupid.
The career I chose was a drama major in college, at Yale, when I played a 90-year-old woman. One of my most celebrated roles. Then I played a really fat person. I played a lot of different things. That's how I thought I loved to wrangle my talent, my need to express myself. I like to do it that way.
