I felt like I was a natural [in The Simpsons].

I did have a tiny moment in a TV movie called My Sweet Charlie, starring Patty Duke.

Both of the Quaid brothers, Randy and Dennis, were in my class, and Tommy Schlamme, who produced and directed The West Wing with Aaron Sorkin, among many others. Marianne Williamson, who did A Course In Miracles, she was in my high-school drama class, too. So it was kind of an amazing class.

As I get older and I get more of this dialogue and I lose more and more brain cells, it really does become the most difficult part of the job!

Certainly I find it most interesting to play a role that I can invent from nothing.

Timing is everything, as you know.

As it turns out, sometimes that bites you. In this case, I saw pictures of Earl [Mills], and...I actually met him. He was quite old at the time, but he had this sort of curly red hair, so we did that in the film. I got a perm and had red hair, and... It was a mess.