I think being an actor in general is acknowledging that we are constantly playing different roles, that we have all these different parts of ourselves and instead of pretending that you are just one thing, as an actor you get to admit that you've got all this stuff going on.

There's nothing more powerful than someone who has the disease who can be articulate and go in front of Congress or go to local government and say man, this is what's happening, and it's going to be you.

On some level in acting, what you're trying to find is truth, because when it's true is when it's also funny.

We can't control what the ratings will be. It's like, if you're going to go skiing, do you hope you'll have a good day of skiing? Yes. Do you hope you won't break your leg? Yes.

I probably was as bad as a security guard as I was as a tie salesman.

Don't you always feel bad when they take away one of the spoons? It's like you ordered wrong.

You only have a week to do a show. I mean, there's only so deep you can dig in that week.