The imagination is part of the arsenal that actors draw from.

What's great about comedy, obviously, is that you set up a situation that people assume one thing and then you break the assumption. That's basically the backbone to comedy. You set up a situation, let people make an assumption, and then you break the assumption.

It is my biggest fear, something happening to a child, your child, is unfathomable.

I learned long ago to focus on things you can control and don't even pay attention to things you don't.

Every experience feeds an actor, and I've learned that depression is all around us.

Had "Malcolm in the Middle" been picked up I would not have been available for the pilot of "Breaking Bad." And right now someone else would be sitting in this chair talking to you. Not me.

I've got a whole mantel just waiting for those awards to come, a whole big mantel. There's just so much available space. I've got the light fixtures hanging from the ceiling, all ready to shine on them. I dust it off every day.