Quotes from Adam F. Goldberg

My mom was always trying to figure out ways to make Hanukkah exciting and compete with our neighbors the Kremps, who always had these amazing blow-out Christmas parties.

My middle school years were defined by memorizing every single word off 'License to Ill' and 'Paul's Boutique.'

I was in college starting in '95, and 'Rent' was the only show I could see - because if you waited in line and camped out, you could try to get the lottery tickets.

I love 'AP Bio' - I think it's so funny - it's just not the show I want to do.

Queen is my all-time favorite band in history. I was an obsessive growing up after I discovered them at 10 at summer camp.

That's what Flyers fans are all about. My favorite thing about Philly fans is booing their own team.

The only interaction I had with my brothers is like negative attention where I'd basically egg them on into beating me up - which was delightful! Otherwise, it was me with a video camera jumping on a bed pretending to be the Ultimate Warrior or setting up my robots making a Transformers movie because I was a lonely kid.

Watching Eagles games with my dad, whether at the vet or in our house, was a big part of my childhood.

It's very complicated to literally put your family on TV.

I like being surrounded by all the stuff that makes me feel creative and inspires me.

I wasn't a sweet kid. I was an instigator and provoked everyone with my goofy hyena cackle, loving every minute of the drama I could create.

In high school, I was so obsessed with the movie that I started an actual 'Highlander' club with my two best friends, Mike Levy and David Sirota. What began as a few geeks hitting each other with swords we made in woodshop soon became a school-wide game with 20 people playing. It became so disruptive that the administration had to shut it down.

There was kind of a no-nonsense parenting style that my parents had that was true of the time. Everything now... there are books, and there are websites, and there are blogs, and you're reading, and there's research. We're such an interconnected world now, and half the stuff they did was pretty terrible, but we somehow turned out fine.

My parents are interested in politics.

Copyright law is too confusing.

I followed Evan's career through the '90s and went to many Lemonheads concerts in N.Y.C. Since he was my best friend's family, he always felt like my family in a weird way.

I always wanted to meet David Hasselhoff, but I never did.

My rap name as a kid was Big Tasty.

For me, every show that's about teachers - and there's been a number of them - they're like misfits who hate the kids and don't want to be there and hate their jobs. For me, having crazy parents, my teachers were the sane people who raised me, and they liked being there.

That's what I did whenever I loved a movie: I'd get together with my friends and play it out and re-enact it.

I ended up going to NYU for film school - close to Pennsylvania - but we talked about what if I went to UCLA or USC, and my mom's whole world was caving in.

I've been with my wife since I was 16.

As a family, we all loved the Flyers. To me, rooting for the Flyers were how I bonded with my dad especially.

My favorite thing to do as a kid was pretend I was in the opening credits of a sitcom. As the theme song would play, I'd look up at the imaginary camera and smile as my name would flash on the screen.