I couldn't be a cameraman or a designer or an actor - I have to be a director because I learned how to do that from my dad.

My mom and dad met at UCLA when he as a captain in the Air Force and she was in her junior year.

My dad instilled in me a great sense of humor. I wasn't bullied at school because my outward attitude was confident, and that helps.

When I was born in 1970 with a rare genetic disorder called spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia congenita (SED), medical science wasn't what it is today and my mum and dad were treated terribly by the medical profession.

My dad left when I was 3 1/2, and he left my mom and I.

As a father, I do everything my dad didn't do. My son Beau's birth changed my life.

I found myself very lost after 'The Partridge Family,' and I lost my dad and I lost my manager, and I lived in a bubble, and it took me 15 years to get through that and a lot of psychotherapy, and I'm laughing about it now!

I came up poor. My mother only had a fourth-grade education. My dad didn't have any education at all. But they were very structured. They worked hard. You know, they didn't complain. They didn't murmur. And they believe in the Christ.

Well, for one thing, you know my dad was a cop.

My dad used to say to me, 'You look more like me than I do.'