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

It takes a very strange person to enjoy fame, with all the by-products that come with it. It's not necessarily a thrill.

I became an actor, and because I had success as an actor, I became famous. I was acting for quite a while before I got famous; television made me famous. I guess that it's television that is responsible for everybody's desire to be famous.

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.

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

The first thing I thought [when I read the script] was that Frasier was an intellectual at some points but also an Everyman - flawed and very insecure.

I went and did some things [rehab], and then of course my life didn't change that much [for a while], but I never missed work.