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

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

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.'

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

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

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.

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.