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

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

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

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

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.

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.'