Sometimes I think that people's characters get forged, at least in part, from their names.

Actors don't necessarily want to be famous or rich or anything else. It's a very bad gamble if that's what you're after.

Amazing tradition. They throw a great party for you on the one day they know you can't come.

People know that both my parents were shrinks so I was sort of raised in an atmosphere where there was that interest in the human mechanism and the human psyche and what makes people tick. And yes, I think I'm particularly creative and adventurous and improvisational and spontaneous in my inner impulses and patterns and deeply curious and appetized in the unfathomably mysterious and delicious phenomena that is the human being and who we really are.

I think we're dealing with a realm of human experience that doesn't get all that much attention on television.

I'm always interested in craft and I was interested to see how people work. For me, it's a little like lessons at school.

I like a pickled cucumber. A regular cucumber I'm not so interested in.