I went to Princeton High School, when I was very serious about being an artist. I was in a theatre family but I didn't want to become an actor.

Having grown up in the theater family, having done a huge amount of acting from a very little boy to precocious teenager in Shakespeare festivals that my father produced, I went off to college and fell in with the theater gang. I was already an experienced actor. I became a kind of campus star. I heard all this applause and laughter.

I certainly had my years as an out of work actor but I was married with a baby. My wife was supporting us.

Instead of being a theater actor who sometimes does movies I became a movie actor who sometimes does theater.

I gave up shame a long time ago.

I keep looking for things I haven't done yet.

I can't imagine doing an hour-long dramatic series because it's so much work. A sitcom is a wonderful gig. You work from 10 to 4 every day, it's fun, and you get to live at home.