My dad sold encyclopedias and my mom worked in a factory office.

Comedy. It was just huge in my house. Peter Sellers and Alec Guinness, Monty Python and all those James Bond movies were highly regarded.

Well, I like how people talk. I like language. You know, Linda Richman spoke in Yiddish.

I had a blast, but I still wonder sometimes why they saw me as the perfect guy for this strange character.

And I loved the whole idea behind the story, which is that you're beautiful, so don't let other people tell you that you're not just because you don't look like the people in magazines. Or because you're not that weird ideal body image that's out there right now.

And I thought, when I have kids, that's the sort of well told, silly, and fun fairy tale that I would want to take them to. But it was an amazing experience. And I think Shrek is a real classic, a fairy tale classic.

My dad loved to laugh. He was very funny and very silly.