Yeah, I started when I was 6 years old. My brother and sister would get all of these presents at Christmas time from the cast and crew of their show and I was jealous. So I decided that I had to become an actor.

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When Sara Gilbert was 6 years old, she saw her brother and sister getting lots of presents from the people who worked on their TV show. She felt jealous that they were getting all these gifts, so she decided she wanted to become an actor too so she could get presents like them.

About Sara Gilbert

Sara Gilbert is an American actress best known for her role as Darlene Conner on the sitcom Roseanne. She has also created and co-hosted the CBS daytime talk show The Talk and had a recurring role on The Big Bang Theory.

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Yeah, I started when I was 6 years old. My brother and sister would get all of these presents at Christmas time from the cast and crew of their show and I was jealous. So I decided that I had to become an actor.

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I like that kind of frantic schedule. It makes me feel like I have a purpose.

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No, I feel like my personality probably influenced the character, more than the character influenced me.

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I am ashamed to admit I watch a lot of reality shows like The Osbournes and The Bachelor.

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I am pretty much a sucker any really bad reality television.

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My twin in the show is Molly Stanton who is so sweet and great and she is totally different from me.

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I’d like to do more stuff with less sarcasm.

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A good place to start initially would be school plays.

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I flew back and forth and did episodes of Roseanne while I was at Yale.

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The best thing about being an actress is getting good concert tickets.

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Especially when you play a character for so many years, the character ends up reflecting a lot of who you are and I think I’ve changed a lot since then, but that represented a lot of who I was as a teenager.

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But I just wonder what it would be like to be able to go places without people recognizing me.

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You know what you are best at, and writing is just not my thing, but I like it.

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I pretty much only write by default, because I want to make certain projects so instead of trying to wait and find them, I create them, but I’m not really a writer.

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I’d just love to have an audience and it’s the most fun in the world to get a new script every week and have the audience come in, and work with those actors.

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I like going to New York. I like the galleries and the theatre and the restaurants and bars and music. I think that city is more alive than Los Angeles.

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I think I really see myself doing TV more than ever.

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