I don't much care to watch myself. There are still probably 50 or 60 episodes of 'Frasier' that I have never seen.

Actually I was born in 1940 in Blackpool because my family lived in Manchester but Manchester was being bombed. So my mother was sent away to Blackpool to have me and then went back; so I lived my first eighteen years in Manchester and then emigrated to the States when I was eighteen.

I'm a dog person; I've had dogs all my life.

People say there's no trace of an accent anymore, and there isn't because I worked very hard to lose it. And the reason I did that is a British accent in America is a real status symbol.

I don't much care to watch myself. There are still probably 50 or 60 episodes of 'Frasier' that I have never seen.

My first acting class was taught by a little known playwright, David Mamet, who then cast me in my first play, opposite John Malkovich.

I believe in divine inspiration and things like that and I really relish a good, attentive, participating audience.