I started out as a very traditional actor. The first thing I ever did in terms of performance was singing.

Sometimes you go up to people who look totally normal and then you talk to them for a few seconds and you are like, Oh I better get out of this, because this person is a little mentally unbalanced, and they are not going to get a joke.

Every actor-performer says this, and it sounds so irritating, but I'm not the most outgoing person.

The camera guys can't mess up. God bless them, they hardly ever do. But they literally don't know what's going to happen next. None of us do. And it all has to come together and be funny.

It's one thing to be struggling and not really making money in your early 20s and figuring out your life. Early 30s, you start to wonder, is this ever going to happen?

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

I have a very vivid memory.