Kathy Bates is sexy. It's partly because of her talent, but she's got a great face, and a great laugh.

I always hated the Grateful Dead. Never even bought a Led Zeppelin album.

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.

My goal is to leave this planet with the biggest carbon footprint I can possibly leave.

There's no way around it, drama is very difficult to shoot. It's very heavy and something that you carry with you for the course of the day.

My father could swear in Gaelic and English, by the way, ladies and gentlemen.

Most people think, "Life sucks, and then you die." I disagree. I think life sucks. Then you get cancer. Then you go into chemotherapy. You lose all your hair, you feel bad about yourself. Then all of the sudden the cancer goes into remission, and then all of the sudden you have a stroke. You can't move your right side. And then, maybe, you die.