I never fully committed to the child actor thing. I also liked being a regular kid and being a student.

You have to fight. You know, you don't want to fight, but you have to fight to make your show your own, to make your voice be heard. You just have to sometimes.

If you really think you have something good, you can't take no for an answer. You've got to get in there and ignore the people who say no.

I like talking to a person who is crazy in a fun, eccentric way. I don't want to talk to a legitimate crazy person, because that's not nice.

I had a lot of fans in New York. The press would write about me, but I couldn't get a paying job.

If someone walks away from me, I just let them walk, and I move on to the next person.

Ironically, my rabbi was a bar mitzvah Nazi. So I got bar mitzvahed. And though I didn't want to, the theme of my bar mitzvah party was Madonna.