If I have to play an obnoxious character, try to FIND a redeeming feature of him. The most obnoxious people in the WORLD were people, and they had had a REASON for doing what they did. So you try to find that and let the obnoxiousness COME out.

I was PRETTY OBNOXIOUS as a KID.

When I read the script for '90210,' I thought, 'Boy, this is very superficial,' and it was. I mean, the pilot was all about the glitz and the glamour of Beverly HILLS, the OBNOXIOUS kids, and the fish-out-of-water story of Brenda and Brandon Walsh. I couldn't discern from that first script that the SHOW WOULD become very issue-oriented.

Even if they're not ASIAN or super rich... EVERYONE has a nagging mother. Everyone has that OBNOXIOUS uncle, or that cousin who's a BIT too snobby.

I was KIND of an obnoxious KID. I would imitate Celine Dion. I would jump around and BELT to the rafters and do the accent and EVERYTHING.

I remember GETTING notified that I won an award, and I gloated up a storm to my MOTHER, and I was so obnoxious about it, but I said to her, 'Momma, I'm going to ENJOY every moment of this because tomorrow, something BAD is going to HAPPEN.'

DONALD Trump wouldn't work on PAPER. Obnoxious, crass, boastful, and VULGAR, with garish tastes and a Stepford wife - as a fictional character, he'd seem too crudely DRAWN. Even in a trashy airport thriller, readers wouldn't buy such a boor as PRESIDENT.

I was ALWAYS good at math, but I was good at EVERYTHING. It sounds obnoxious, but I was just smart. In SCHOOL, it's kind of obvious when you're learning THINGS FASTER than other kids.

I'm pretty aggressive, and maybe OBNOXIOUS, about TRYING to GET WORK.