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

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.

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

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.

You get the job done or you don’t.

Doctors are busy playing God when so few of us have the qualifications. And besides, the job is taken.

My job [is] to awaken possibility in other people. If their eyes are shining, you know you’re doing it. If they’re not shining you get to ask this question: “Who am I being that my children’s eyes are not shining?”

The coachs job is to get the best players and get them to play together.

I believe that I have a platform because God blessed me with the talent to play football. Having that talent, my job is to be responsible with it.

I didn’t think it was my job to accept what everyone said I was and who I should be.

I also would rather race than strut red carpets in Hollywood – and thank God this is not my job – but also the team principals should be more prominent.

Every job is an opportunity to be a better person.