[Jack Nash from The Andromeda Strain] was not in the original film, but he was kind of a Geraldo Rivera almost kind of reporter that had a drug addiction. We start the story in rehab, and then he gets the roots of the story. I loved him.

My wife is a real camper; it's a nice way to bond.

As a television actor, there's a power you're given to use your image to do something valuable. As a parent, these messages are particularly important to me.

I had played many gay characters before, but they were finite - guest characters in TV shows or characters in plays.

Most people, if you live in a big city, you see some form of schizophrenia every day, and it’s always in the form of someone homeless. “Look at that guy - he’s crazy. He looks dangerous.” Well, he’s on the streets because of mental illness. He probably had a job and a home...

I had run into Kari Lizer at an airport, I think, and she said, "Would you come on the show [ The New Adventures Of Old Christine]?" And I said, "God. Absolutely."

In the '97 pilot season [of Will & Grace ], I got the male lead on The Jenny McCarthy Show.