You've got to make the most of where you are. Then, when you're somewhere else, you've got to have the ability to fulfill that.

I did tons of theater in school, and then when I was 16 and got my driver's license, I started driving to Los Angeles, along with my friend Eric Stoltz, who was a year ahead of me and was doing the same thing. So we had the same manager, and we started auditioning for things and doing commercials when we were 16.

You've got to make the most of where you are. Then, when you're somewhere else, you've got to have the ability to fulfill that.

I love being a part of something that is grassroots, and you can see the actual changes, the effect of what people do.

Knock wood, but I started acting professionally when I was 16, and I've always been able to support myself since then.

'ER' was so huge that whatever I did coming back to television, I'd have to feel as strongly about.

Flying back from New York, the flight attendant said 'God, I wished you were here yesterday, we had a stroke on the plane.' I said, 'If I have a stroke on a plane, I hope the pretend doctor isn't the one on the plane. I want a real doctor.'