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"Grandfathered" star Josh Peck has one person to thank for keeping his feet on the ground while other child stars his age went off the rails, his mom, whom Peck said, "doesn't play."
"Even now, if I say something remotely fresh, she'll still call me on it." said Peck in an interview with People Magazine.
Mom Barbara knew she had something special in her son, who never complained of the challenges being a child star could face in the harsh entertainment business.
"I was just totally in love with coming to work every day," the Grandfathered star said to People.
Peck made his film debut in the Nickelodeon classic, "Snow Day," at the age of 12.
Soon after that, Peck moved into the ensemble cast of the classic hit Nickelodeon series "The Amanda Show" starring Amanda Bynes and co-starring his future "Drake & Josh" pal Drake Bell.
"The Amanda Show" spun Peck and Bell into their own series on the popular children's network, "Drake & Josh," which ran for four seasons on the network.
According to People, the actor took time off after "Drake & Josh's" end to try his hand at higher education.
"I was eager to be challenged in a different way," revealed Peck, who enrolled at a local community college, but later decided higher education was not for him.
"When you're a cute kid and maybe have some natural talent, it seems quite easy," revealed Peck to People.
"But this takes an incredible amount of work and focus and dedication. You have to weather the times when you're not working. There's a lot of rejection. I understood that early on. I never let any of that deter me from my main focus - my passion," he said.
Peck ultimately decided to stick with a career in the entertainment business, segueing into vocal work for the three Dreamworks "Ice Age" films.
The actor also starred alongside Ben Kingsley in 2008's "The Wackness" and appeared in "The Wedding Ringer."
Peck stars alongside John Stamos in Fox's "Grandfathered," which airs on Fox.
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