People who work on soaps all the time understand the formula of how to do it.

I naturally think in terms of comedy whenever I see anything because tragedy is so close to comedy, so I like to add the tragedy to the comedy or a little bit of comedy to the tragedy in order to make them both feel more real to me.

If I play one psychic, then I'm playing a psychic at least three or four more times.

There's still formulaic stuff on network television, but there's also more of an opportunity to have your way with storytelling, especially in sitcoms. That's what the difference is.

I lived in San Francisco for about eight years and I did a lot of improvisation there. The improvisational world ruled the voice world in San Francisco, so I became a voice talent there and did a lot of commercials and worked all the time. But I never could break into animation.

I'm really comfortable doing voice-overs, but it's really fun to do animation.

Now, you always know there's going to be some compromise when you're doing something for television, and especially network television.