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

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.

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.

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

I think it's your duty to overcome what you inherit in life.

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.

The greatest sin is judgment without knowledge.