I was going to be living there and I didn't want to sound like a foreigner all my life.

I think the Democratic Party realizes, having lost two presidential elections, we need to do a better job of creating a farm team.

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 was going to be living there and I didn't want to sound like a foreigner all my life.

'Frasier' was a classy gig. I didn't for one minute think it was less prestigious or artistic than doing a play.

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 like to learn the lines and not get any precontrived things in my head about the part. Just get on stage and see what the other actors are doing, and respond to them as honestly as I can.