A: When the work is good, it's fun. It's not easy to have fun, though, when the pressure is on.
There's a trick to it. The key is relaxation.
But if you're doing what you love, it's worth all the work. I love to entertain.
There's a lot of memorisation and scary moments when you have to get in front of a lot of people and try to be funny.
Q: And people expect you to be funny all the time?
A: Sometimes people come up to me and feel like they know me and expect some high-energy entertainment.
They're like, 'Hey, man, I bought a ticket to your movie, so you owe me some more dancing'.
Sometimes I do a little dance, and then I run at top speed.
Q: Do fans also quote some of your movie lines to you?
A: Yeah, I hear a lot from Nacho Libre and School of Rock, but I can't remember any of the lines off the top of my head.
From Kung Fu Panda, there's a lot of funny parts, but maybe I'll hear some 'skidoosh' here and there.
Q: Why do you think you are so popular with kids?
A: I have a certain energy that is childlike.
I'm a clown by nature. Kids respond to that. It's in my DNA, I think.
It's not really something that I decided I wanted to be.
Q: You were active and moving around when reading the lines for Kung Fu Panda. How important was that?
A: It helps me to get into character when I physicalise what I'm doing.
If my character is supposed to be out of breath, I like to be out of breath. It's very method-y.
Maybe I was inspired because I was in a movie with Dustin Hoffman (the voice of the red panda Shifu, who trains Po), the king of method acting.
There's that famous story of him staying up for 72 hours to do a movie where the character is going to be awake for 72 hours.
I'm not that intense, but I'm from the same school, I guess.
Also, I like to physicalise because they had a camera on me and I thought maybe the animators would get a little inspiration from my power moves.
Q: What advice do you have for anyone who want to get into show business?
A: What's important is a sense of adventure and following the little inner voice in your head . . .
If you're thinking about it as a business, like selling shoes, it's going to be hard to come up with anything people want to watch. You have to think of it as fun.
Q: Both of your parents were rocket scientists. If you built your own rocket, where would you go?
A: I'd just take a round trip. I wouldn't land anywhere.
I'd take a quick space mission: I'd go to Saturn - it's the coolest-looking - or maybe Neptune.
But then I'd just come home, because I like my television better than anywhere in the universe. - John Anderson
