I was as happy doing theater in New York for little or no money as I am now doing television for more money. The happiness, I guess, comes out of it being a good job. The success has to do with the fact that it's a good job that will continue.

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

The first year I was on the show, it took an interviewer about 45 minutes to get it out of me that I even had a dog, and even then I wouldn't tell him the dog's name.

So much of life is paradox. So much of life is neither one thing nor the other... it's both things at the same time.

My dad had been an actor... not only had my dad been an actor, but his dad had been an actor, and my great-grandfather had been an actor. And who knows before then?

Sometimes in the most tragic situation, something just profoundly funny happens.

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