You'll be tested every single day.

So many people aren't ready for Hollywood - professionally or practically.

Maybe, I got a sense when [Star Wars] came out, and there were always these lines around the block. We didn't understand the popularity of Cheers until maybe five years into the series.

That was actually Lloyd Phillips who was a Kiwi film producer in L.A. And it was about Gorgeous George, not Haystacks Calhoun. I was in a couple of Lloyd's films and got approached to write the story. People don't realize it, but Gorgeous George had this flamboyant, camp stage persona that had a tremendous influence on other celebrities, like Elton John, Liberace, Elvis Presley, and Mohammed Ali, who all wanted to establish their own outlandish stage personas. The project died because Gorgeous George's wife refused to give up the rights.

I'm still really into set design and construction when I do films. I notice that stuff.

Diabetes affects my family. One of my kids is affected by it.

It appalls me that the people who decide what Americans will be watching on the tube have never been to the United States. Not the real United States.