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

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

As an actor, it's great to play a strong leader with a heart of gold.

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.

The learning curve on soaps is through the roof because it's a three-camera setup. There's a master and then there's two singles. And the great thing about soaps, and soap actors will tell you, is that when you get your line wrong, they don't re-shoot it. They just cut to the person listening.

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 did feel Dr. Cox, the character that I was auditioning for, was too similar to the head of the hospital. He was too arrogant and mean. I approached him kind of like I had a miniature Max sitting on my shoulder. I pictured Max saying, "This guy has got to give love every once in a while. He has to!" I knew there had to be tiny little windows of redemption.