Fame obviously has become a premium in everybody's life. Everybody thinks they deserve it, everybody thinks they want it and most people really don't enjoy it once they get it.

While it is tempting to play it safe, the more we're willing to risk, the more alive we are. In the end, what we regret most are the chances we never took.

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.

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.

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.

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.