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Having seen TED from a distance, I always thought if ever there was a place for someone like me, the outcasts, people who maintained who they are despite being told what they were, it was TED.

My father's a character.

I'd love to do something a little different than 'Ted.'

I used to make up stories about my father. I would go to the movies and look for a character who looked like my father.

I think like my dad, but I have a huge kinship with my mom.

My father was an actor, and my mother was his agent, so I had it on both sides: the crazy actor and his representation.

Our public portrayal of fathers has shifted during my life. TV fathers have 'evolved' from real people like Sheriff Andy Taylor, Beaver's dad Ward Cleaver and Heathcliff 'Cliff' Huxtable, to cartoon dads like Homer Simpson and Seth MacFarlane's caricatures in 'American Dad!' and 'Family Guy.'

I thought I could never be the actor Dad was, so I avoided it for a while.

When I was a school kid, I used to read lots of comics. This started me on drawing. I would make my own comics about my teddy bear, whose name happened to be Ted.

My dad is a much more flamboyant character than I am. I think that's why I couldn't see myself going into straight acting. I always just felt daft.