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Almost Anything Makes Me Laugh, Especially Jokes At My Own Expense. And I Will Never, Ever Admit To Being Ticklish Anywhere.

Voice-over Stuff Is So Much Fun Because You Don't Have Hair And Makeup And Wardrobe. You Get To Show Up. And There Were Some Talented People, And We Don't Even Know Them. And They're So Gifted. They Can Do All These Accents And Voices. It's Really Fun To Do That Stuff. It's Really Like Actor Camp.

It Was An Audition Process After Breakfast Club, And I Wasn't Really Sure I Wanted To Do The Movie. There Was A Bigger Role That Rob [lowe] Was Already Set To Play, So The Role They Wanted Me To Audition For Was Alec. [director] Joel Schumacher... This Is Back In The Days When You Could Trick Me With Things Like This. He Goes, "don't You Think You Can Play It?" And I Go, "okaaaaay." So Then I Did It For All The Wrong Reasons But I Don't Think I Would Fall For That Again. Who Knows. I Might.

It's More Like The Inner Workings Of John Bender. He Feels Like He's Been Given A Short Shrift, He's Not Been Provided The Opportunities That Maybe These Other Kids Have. So He Feels Like He Begins In A Hole. And Instead Of Trying To Raise Himself Up, He Wants To Bring All Of Them Down. That's A Dynamic That's Pretty Universal. And So That Was The Real Foothold On That. It Wasn't Like, "oh, My High School Experience Is Like John Bender's [in St. Elmo's Fire]."

Just Because You’ve Only Been Alive For Fifteen Years Doesn’t Mean You’re Less Anything Except Old. That’s All It Means. It Doesn’t Mean You’re Less Experienced. It Doesn’t Mean You’re Less Intelligent. It Doesn’t Mean You’re Less Sensitive. It Doesn’t Mean You Take Things Less Seriously. It’s Like, These Are Younger Human Beings, Meaning Don’t, Because They’re Only Ten, Start Thinking That They Don’t Know What You’re Talking About -because They Do. Don’t Leave People Out In The Cold, And Don’t Talk Down To People -don’t. It Never Works Out.