Dr. Cox mentors the rookie doctors with a spoonful of dirt and then a cup of sugar. I see him as an archetypal descendent of two of my favorite curmudgeonly characters: Lou Grant and Louie De Palma.

I would love to have a photographic memory. It would come in handy with the rants I'm given on Scrubs... often on short notice!

I wanted to be Red Barber, Mel Allen or Howard Cosell. I loved their personalities and all of their sounds.

Learn your lines.' I want that on my gravestone.

I'm just really proud of 'Dead Head Fred.'

I did an episode of 'Frasier' with my friend Kelsey Grammer once.

I'm very proud of 'Platoon,' but at the end of it I was done. I was done.