No, I was an unknown when I walked in that room. He didn't know who I was from a fly on the wall.

Having emotional connections to things that don't really exist, like looking at a green ball and really loving that green ball, and being sad whether it's around or not. Stuff like that. I've never done acting at this level before so it was a huge challenge for me. It was a hurdle to overcome just to survive.

Agents are used to the parents pimping. They're not used to the kid pimping.

No, I was an unknown when I walked in that room. He didn't know who I was from a fly on the wall.

All of the things that have happened in my life have been self-propelled. I can't blame anybody else or point a finger at anybody.

I didn't know my dad for a long time. My dad was on drugs and my dad was at the VA Hospital, my dad was off in his own world selling drugs or using them or there would be crack heads in the house or whatever it would be.

I was doing stand up comedy when I was 11, that's how I got started; not because I wanted to do comedy, but because we were broke, living in Echo Park in Downtown Los Angeles, from 1986, I saw the Rodney King riots; my parents didn't really work. But I wanted a new backpack, that's how I got into this business - I wanted a new backpack.