I look for every opportunity to mix comedy and horror and tragedy. I love catching audiences off-guard.

When you end a successful sitcom, the most sensible thing to do is go back to the theater.

That's how you deal with stardom; you make it the least important part of your life.

I grew up in a theater family. My father was a regional theater classical repertory producer. He created Shakespeare festivals. He produced all of Shakespeare's plays, mostly in Shakespeare festivals in Ohio. One of them, the Great Lakes Theater Festival in Cleveland, is still going. So I grew up not wanting to be an actor, not wanting to go into the family business.

I always tell that to young people - go to college, do theater, work with an audience. Don't try to learn how to act in front of millions and millions of people. Don't make that your first ambition, to be on a sitcom or get into the movies. Learn who you are as an actor, and the best way to do that is to do it in front of an audience.

I'm a fun father, but not a good father. The hard decisions always went to my wife

There's nothing like spending an evening with an audience every night.