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 had this thing about hanging out in dark theaters. My family thought I grew out of a rock.

Be what you are. Don't change yourself for anything. God made you that way for a reason.

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

It's difficult to keep that perspective, I think, as a parent: to know your boundaries as to what's good parenting or just projecting your own expectations on your kids. That's the hardest.

I didn't start jogging or running until I was 37 years old. It was something that really helped me change my life.

You know, you never say never because before I did 'ER,' I always said 'I'll never do a TV series,' so that's what I said.