I'm the youngest of five kids, and I wanted attention. And in Santa Barbara, there was lots of theater going on, so for that area, it was a little bit like playing Little League baseball. There were dance classes, theater classes, and I just loved it.

I just spent a lot of time on 'ER' for that eight years. I also started working when I was 16, so by the time I left 'ER,' I was 40 years old, I had this incredible experience, my wife had this great company, we had four kids, it was like, 'Let's go to New York and live for a while and make that the priority.'

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

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.

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

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.