One of those things that I like about TV is that if you get a group of people you like, you can work with these people for months at a time, and you can discover their strengths and weaknesses, and you can use those in the direction where you take the characters.

I'm really happy I went to a Catholic school because a lot of the repressive tactics they use make for great senses of humor.

Once you have a firefighter in your family, your family and the families from his crew become one big extended family.

What firefighters, and people in our military and cops do is separate from what the rest of us do, basically these people say "I'm going to protect all these strangers."

I wasn't the best student. I wasn't stupid, but I wasn't paying a lot of attention.

If a character dies, you get to do a big, juicy death scene. But the flip side is you're out of the sequel, which is where the real money is.

I've been nominated for Emmys and Golden Globes, but I've never won one and I probably never will.