You can go out in a good movie and look bad as well.
I messed around in high school, but I pretty much put it away until I did a television show in San Francisco.
I still like to listen to the people that I came of age on.
The one nice thing about doing a character for a long time is, you begin to feel more comfortable, and you are thinking less and behaving more.
I will confess I did none of my own singing. I did all my own costume and makeup, though.
Improv is not something I had a lot of experience with, because for a long time, my only experience in front of a camera was all television, which is pretty rigid script-wise, except for the occasional scene where you toss in an ad-lib just to elongate something.