Dr. Forbes Riley
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
We talk in New York.
What's wrong with you?
And so I experienced a great sense of prejudice, of alienation, took that off to school, was going to be a lawyer.
If you're smart, where I grew up, your guidance counselor said one of two things, doctor, lawyer, hate blood, lawyer.
I'm like, they didn't tell me you could be in advertising or real estate or anything else.
I went off to be a lawyer.
The thing is I wanted to play a lawyer on TV.
I didn't want to be a lawyer.
So I'm in college, and in the back of my mind, I wanted to be an actress.
I just did my whole life.
And we did plays and musicals in school I can't sing.
So I never got the lead in any of them.
In fact, I got every play, all six of them a year, Townsperson No.
3 or Chorus.
I was No.
7.
Tree No.
7.
So I'm like, but I kept thinking, and I don't know if it would be interesting to hear if you felt the same way.
When I was little, I knew I was special.