Dave Coulier Credits Jodie Sweetin and Candace Cameron Bure’s Acting Skills as Making the “Full House” Pilot ‘Magical’

Full House star Dave Coulier says that one of the things that made the show so magical was its young cast members.

While appearing at a panel during 90s Con Florida in Daytona Beach on Saturday, Sept. 14, Coulier said the cast initially "didn’t know which direction the show was going to go," or "if we were going to be a hit," but they found out pretty quickly.

"To have that much excitement and to be working with incredible funny actors ... I’m always about how do we make people laugh, and when I saw Jodie and Candace and how funny they were, I thought, we’re good, these kids are really funny," he said.

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Coulier said he knew before filming that actor John Stamos and then stand-up comic Bob Saget "could be funny," but he was more surprised by the funny nature of Candace Cameron Bure and Jodie Sweetin, who played Coulier's nieces on the show.

"When I saw these two and how good they were, I thought, we’re good. We’re going to be on cruise control if we could just keep doing this. It was really exciting and wonderful," he shared.

It wasn't until he and the rest of the cast saw how well the show was received by its audience, though, that the full impact of Full House revealed itself.

"We talk about this often, about how incredible our Full House fans are ... and a lot of times we’ll hear 'Look, I had a really tough childhood and you guys helped me get through some really tough times. You were my family every Friday night,' " Coulier added.

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He continued: "When you hear that enough times you start to realize you had a positive impact on a lot of kids. I think collectively, all of us are really proud of that. For me personally I think that would be the one thing that resonates with me is 'Wow, we really did something great for the kids.' "

Coulier exclusively told PEOPLE that he had been diagnosed with stage 3 non-Hodgkin lymphoma in October after an upper respiratory infection caused major swelling in his lymph nodes.

“I went from, I got a little bit of a head cold to I have cancer, and it was pretty overwhelming,” he said in an earlier interview. “This has been a really fast roller coaster ride of a journey.”

He added that he was initially "stunned" to get the news before reality settled in.

“I don't know how to explain it, but there was an inner calm about all of it," he said, "and I think that that's part of what I've seen with the women in my family go through. They really instilled that in me and inspired me in a way because they were magnificent going through what they went through, and I just thought, ‘I'm okay with this too.’ I've had an incredible life on a journey with incredible people around me and I'm okay."

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