A child is a reinvigorating experience. It almost does feel like immortality, but not in the way people think. It reminds us there are universal truths that are most simply seen through the mind of a young person.

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

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.

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

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.

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