I don't think of myself as funny - I don't fill up a room with my humor... I would fail miserably as a stand-up comedian.

Reading a book, watching a movie, going to a play, it's transporting, and very, very exciting. And to be a part of that, creating things with your imagination, whoa.

I am always the type of person who is waiting for the other shoe to drop and for it to peter out and end. And if it does that's fine.

I tend not to be someone who's on all the time, or is always trying to make other people laugh.

[And on going from character to leading actor] I don't approach anything differently; I just approach it as a character. I'm always astounded at the fact that I've ever played a leading character in anything [Laughs]. And my wife concurs with that, frankly. She always thought I would be, at best, the wacky neighbor on a sitcom, so this is all just a surprise and a joy.

Children are very smart, in their own stupid way. A child's brain is like a sponge, and you know how smart sponges are.

I play the baritone horn - which is like a mini tuba, and is the least sexy instrument you can choose and I generally say I don’t play one so I don’t have to acknowledge it. I also play fife.