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

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

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.

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.