Hurry, guys!
We're going to be late for our shift at the hospital.
I like that.
Yeah.
What am I doing these days?
Well, let's see.
I'm still acting, primarily voice over.
I'm on Doc McStuffins.
I play Stuffy.
Never fear, the dragon's here.
I also play with Ballzy Tomorrow, my band.
Every day is different.
And it's not all champagne and caviar,
but there's no denying that every day I get to do some sort
of art thing, which is cool.
Well, this is the house I grew up in.
Let's go inside and meet the woman that made this.
I wanted to be in a monster movie.
Well, yes, you did.
And I was really obsessed with the 1930s universal horror
films when I was a young guy.
And at a certain point, I started
saying, I want to be in a monster movie,
I want to be in a monster movie, I
want to be in a monster movie.
And both of my parents said, we'll take
the little guy on an audition.
And he will not want to do this.
And I got that job.
You were cute.
Were?
Were.
[SIGHS]
I keep in touch a little bit with everybody,
and a lot bit with Susan Olsen.
So Susan and I, we were closer in age,
and I think she's just amazing.
She's super cool.
And Barry Williams is apparently very angry with me,
I don't know why.
In his book, he calls me obnoxious.
Mind you, I'm not saying that he's wrong.
But I don't know, maybe that's for me to say.
(LAUGHTER)
I think I was able to avoid the pitfalls of a lot
of other child actors, and drugs and alcohol,
because my parents, who said that they
would kill me and make another one that looked just like me.
And I'm too much of a people-pleaser
to run the risk of somebody going, I'm sorry,
we can't hire you anymore.
The work is too important to me.
Every one of those jobs was exactly that.
It was another job.
And I was grateful to be working.
It was less about, hey, I'm on the TV,
or ego, or any of that stuff.
To me, it was, I got another job, yes.
I'm lucky, because I knew what I wanted to do when I was a kid,
and how is it possible that I was right?
Because my choice before actor was fireman on the moon.
MUSIC
For a long time, I don't know what it is now,
but it was one of the highest grossing
independent films in history.
I mean, it's unbelievable.
I say all the time, for me it wasn't acting,
because I graduated high school in 1982 in the San Fernando
Valley, at the height of sort of speak,
and everything everybody was totally walking around school
talking like this, you know?
Cowabunga, dude.
When people look back on my career,
what would I like them to see?
That he did some really good work, he usually
showed up on time, and God, why didn't we put him in our thing?
It could have been iconic.