You should encourage a child to show off. You can say to a child, 'Stop being rude,' 'Stop shouting,' 'Stop jumping around on the furniture.' But 'Stop showing off'? That's awful.

I had a stammer through adolescence. Any fun I'd had performing in school plays disappeared and only came back at 18, when the stammer started to go. Then I thought: 'Well, perhaps I can show off now.'

Wow..is there anything you can't do?

Why do you have to use me to show off? If you want to show off, then why don't you learn to play chess."
- Ch. 5

I'm an actor, of course, so I like to show off.

It is no use to keep private information which you can't show off