I Had To Audition For Fandango. When

It's Strange, 'cause A Play, You Start At The Beginning And You Go All The Way Through To The End. So It's Naturally Very Well Rehearsed And You Get A Rhythm And A Flow. In Film, You Can Shoot The Ending Before The Beginning. It's Very Odd. And It's Like A Craft You Have To Learn.

I Did A Moonlighting Episode Because I Was Friends With Whoopi [goldberg, Who Guest-starred In The Same Episode], And She Asked Me To Do It And I Did It. But Yeah, That Was My First Regular On A Series, And It's Because I'd Met Brooke Shields A Number Of Years Earlier At A Charity Event.

Paul Gleason Played The Teacher. I Just Tortured Him As Best I Could. 'cause He Wasn't One Of The Kids, You Know, So It Was Okay. He Was Great.

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]."

The First Animation Thing I Did Was The First Transformers, The One That Was Animated Many Years Ago. And I Had Heard That Orson Welles Was Doing A Voice On It.