I'd be doing Oscar predictions months ahead of time, and not only for the Oscars, for the Grammys. This is just what excited me as a kid.

I'm not a big reality show fan, because I just think it's too fake.

We weren't rich people, but my parents and I shared an interest in the theater and so we went a lot. And that definitely inspired me.

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.

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

I have a very vivid memory.

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