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

There's really no point in having children if you're not going to be home enough to father them.

So I was hugely thrilled that my first scene ever on camera was with Hal Holbrook.

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

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.

People relate to things that feel real to them. All the good, happy, over-sexed and moneyed endings on TV are not the way most of us feel in our lives. The success of 'E.R.,' I think, is not relying on overly sentimental stories that are solved where people's lives wrap up nicely with happy endings.

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