That's the best way to audition for anything: When your back-up plan is your dream, you know?

Hey, don't stick that tongue out, unless you're gonna use it.

The hood ornament on your car is for telling you where you're going. The rear-view-mirror is for showing you how good you look while you're getting there.

I was 23, and I was in L.A. while on hiatus [as an understudy] from Biloxi Blues on Broadway. The guy that I'd been studying with had been fired for horsing around on stage with Matthew Broderick, and they were really anxious to get me back into the play. So I was in a great situation, and at the time, I definitely wasn't thinking about television

I had heard about Cheers, of course, but I never watched it. So I watched two episodes, and I was like, "Oh my God. This is really good."

That's the best way to audition for anything: When your back-up plan is your dream, you know?

You have to be deviant if you're going to do anything new.