Looking back is a form of insanity, given that I could really never understand what everybody else was thinking. I find these days that I'm much more efficient when I just focus on what I need to do in order to move my family forward and get the focus off me.

I pretty much always choose characters. That's what I do. That's what I look for. I look for dynamics in a script and potential.

I think my children have presented one of the biggest lessons so far in my life. It was only when my kids were born that I realized just how much I'd been living my life worried about what everybody thought of me and, even more strangely, worried about what I imagined other people might be thinking about me.

I love playing bad guys; they're always much more fun than the good guy.

A long-running TV series is a beast in that it demands you stick to one character over a long haul.

I seem to be incapable of playing that guy that always does the right thing, who always responds well in any circumstance.

Comedy has to be so much cleaner than drama. You can't layer it in the way you can a dramatic performance. Which is why it's more difficult than drama - you don't have so many tricks.