When I got this role, my daughter Molly said, 'Dad, you've come full circle.

When I got this role, my daughter Molly said, 'Dad, you've come full circle.

My part had three lines. I said, You look wonderful, sir, three times. All my friends said, Do not take that role - and do not understudy. You'll regret it the rest of your life. I did both of those things, and I've never regretted it once.

On the other hand, we don't come to work with all of these social goals, nor are we directly trying to change the world and all of that. Our job is that we have these human characters, and it's our responsibility to play them truthfully and as human as possible. Jill has cast this impeccably. These actors nail it, even the non-Pfeffermans. It's ridiculous.

Carlos Castaneda always said, "If you're going to do something, do it impeccably."

I loved the gentlemanly way they treated each other. It was unlike anything I was used to. I started helping them strike the set and, at 11, began taking acting classes privately.

The Emmy should be an ensemble award, too. I kept howling at everyone else's performances.