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

I think New Yorkers – they’re media savvy. People have a sense of humor.

A lot of people in Hollywood, and everywhere pretty much, operate on fear. No one wants to get fired, so everyone’s scared to take a chance.

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

I am invisible in gay bars.

I like talking to a person who is crazy in a fun, eccentric way. I don’t want to talk to a legitimate crazy person, because that’s not nice.

The most outrageous thing happened years ago in my YouTube days, when I asked an older lady – it was like a sexually flavored question and she just slapped me full-on across the face. That’s the one time someone got physically aggressive with me. And it hurt.

It was pop culture, entertainment, Hollywood, award shows – these are the things that really captivated me as a kid.

What I do is make myself this over-the-top character that people either find endearing or they think is a joke. Then I can do anything I want.

I knew what I had to do. I knew I had to keep working at it and keep putting material out there, even if no one was paying me for it.

We weren’t, like, rich people, but we were middle-class people and my parents supported this love I had for entertainment.

I have a medical condition, all right. It’s called caring too much, and it’s incurable. Also, I have eczema.

I spend the majority of my time in New York and LA. I feel like a large part of my following and my fans are probably in New York and LA because of the work that I do is very New York-LA-centric. So people do recognize me. But it’s nothing overwhelming at all.

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.

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

There have been man-on-the-street interviews for years, but insulting people is not that funny to me.

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

I’m an actor. I’ve always been an actor. I’ve always approached all my comedy as an actor. I don’t really care about jokes either. I tire of jokes.

Colloquialism is the toughest part of what we do, as foreign actors, because there are certain sayings that you guys have that absolutely don’t make any sense.

It is interesting to be here and to see that for certain actors they have to live in a way that you think of nobody living anymore except for in small towns. They have such elaborate double lives.

If you ask any actor “What single thing would make you really, really happy?” Among the top five things they’d say is not having to audition anymore.

I went to school to be an actor in Canada and realized I hated auditions once I left, which is a huge problem if you want to get a part.

Actors are just entertainers, even the serious ones. That’s all an actor is. He’s like a serious Bruce Forsyth.

I took a gamble in becoming an actor and my dream job has been realised.

Certainly, I was typed. But what is typing? It is a trademark, a means by which the public recognizes you. Actors work all their lives to achieve that. I got mine with just one picture. It was a blessing.