I'd ice-skated before, because I'm Canadian and that's what you do as a kid, but I'd never, ever been on quad skates.
I read The Stinky Cheese Man as an adult. I missed that book when I was a kid. I grew up mostly with books bought at yard sales, picture books from the fifties to 1975, which is really a lucky thing.
Twenty years of schooling and they put you on the day shift - look out out kid, they keep it all hid
I'm a different actor than you thought I was. Don't put me in a box. I'm not just some kid running around screaming curse words.
I feel like I'm moving from a world where I was creating fantasies that weren't real inside - and very often feeling really dissatisfied - to now living in reality for the first time in my life since I was a kid, and learning to appreciate where I am now while actually sitting with that reality.
Either the kid was naturally hyper or he was hopped up on enough caffeine to give a heart attack to a water buffalo.
I was a kid who didn't have a lot of self-esteem.
Wouldn't you rather your kid be a drug dealer than a drug addict?
The graphic style itself is influenced by a lot of very layered and detailed comics that I read as a kid, like Vagabond by Takehiko Inoue.
I was a wild, mischievous kid, and I had tremendous imagination. Any experience I had, I'd try to reenact it.
I think Laurie's Keller story 'We are growing', resonates because when you have that amount of independence, you're starting to ask yourself questions that the grownups in your life have been answering for you. Before that, you are a good kid, or you are a funny kid, because you're told that's who you are. But when it's just you and the book, you have to figure out who you are.
Before the whole Disney realm had undergone this huge revamping, as a kid, I always saw myself doing these dramatic indie parts. And then I fell in love with doing comedy and doing kid shows and really working for kids.
I've been a book collector since I was young, since I was a kid.
When I was a kid, among the other embarrassing things I would do, and there's a list of stupid things, but I would make these dumb comedy tapes. I would often make prank phone calls, but I would also do it with friends.
I've managed to keep a clear head and remain sane in this business because I remain a kid off-camera.
Never buy your kid a Puzzle that you can't solve!
When I was a kid, I always thought that I'd be a comic book artist. It took a long time to start thinking that I could be a musician.
Show business is my life. When I was a kid I sold insurance, but nobody laughed.
Then again, I think about high school every day and I think about being a little kid every day too.
I didn't grow up a theatre kid, going to theatre camps. I played sports, and that was my main direction. But luckily, I never had to choose between sports and theatre.