Sometimes it's hard to know why networks will stick with something. Sometimes the ratings won't happen, but there's excitement at the network, so they'll stay with the show.

My favorite Oscar story was a year my brother had been nominated, my whole family went.

None of the people are what you think when you first meet them, who you think they are, and they turn out to be maybe something a little different.

I've done a number of these My Name is Earl shows. I play Earl's father. It's a half-hour comedy. And I'll be doing some more of those. I have a movie coming out that I did with Misha Barton, called Don't Fade Away.

I've always seen making movies as a bunch of little births and deaths. We come in. We don't know anybody or very few people that we work with, but the nature of the job pulls us into a sort of an intimate kind of relationship and communication and then they're gone and it's kind of melancholy. You miss that guy but then suddenly you're working with him again maybe somewhere.

Some of my oldest friends are actors. But that's not the only place my friends come from.

My father was my teacher. But most importantly he was a great dad.