No day-to-day mishaps or indignities can really compromise your sense of self after you've survived a deep tragedy.

Alexander Pope once wrote that the theater aspires to wake the soul by gentle strokes of art - to raise the genius and to mend the heart.

I don't know if I'm addicted to fame; fame is more of an unpleasant circumstance of an addiction to creativity.

I'm an actor and I've created a lasting and memorable character named Frasier, who is not me, but who most people think is. So when I have a chance to play something that's different, I embrace it because it's fun; also in this case, he's a memorable character.

I always thought Cheers ended well. You always anticipate that the characters, theough they're leaving television, will somehow go on in another world of the imagination, which I think is good.

My life is a party thrown for me by my own decisions.

Life is supposed to get tough.