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.

It's a special kind of acting, soap opera acting. It's hard for me.

I've never done any Hallmark movies. I don't know why.

I'm usually sort of ambiguous in terms of whether I'm playing a good person or a bad person. I can walk that line of funny but also dark, and I'm happy doing that.

When you work with kids, you realize if they have a really good, stable family environment that they're going to be okay.

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.

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