I definitely wanted to be famous as a kid, but as I've gotten older, I feel less comfortable with it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I was never famous as a kid. That's the biggest difference between me and any other kid actor is that I wasn't famous as a kid.
Being famous hasn't changed my perception of myself - I've just grown up.
I don't think I'll ever be comfortable with the idea of being famous.
For me, getting comfortable with being famous was hard - that whole side of it, the loss of anonymity, the loss of privacy. Giving up that part of your life and not having control of it.
I've never been overwhelmed with a desire to become famous. It's not that I didn't want to have my work appreciated, but for some reason - maybe it's because my father disapproved of almost everything I did - in some secret place in my being was a desire to avoid success.
I was definitely not the kid that just wanted to be famous for no reason whatsoever and then happened to find comedy. Fame and all that stuff have always been slightly terrifying to me, and it makes me very anxious.
I saw the drawbacks of fame as a kid. It wasn't for me.
Growing up, I was picked on a bit; I was pretty heavy-set, and then I was a theater kid. I just felt unpopular and uncool, so I think in my mind I had this idea of fame and being popular and how nice that would be. The reality of it is sometimes it's not nice.
I never got into things to be famous. Sometimes it's fun, sometimes it's annoying.
I never set out to become 'famous.' I mean, when you're 14 you think 'I'm gonna become a writer and people will want my autograph and that'll be cool,' but you grow up and you learn that's just not how the world works. I resigned myself to the fact that I would probably never be published and if I did it probably wouldn't be a big deal.