My job as an actor is to serve the writing and help the author get his ideas across.

When I was young, I learned very early on that I could make my mother laugh. And that was one of the greatest sounds I ever heard.

Kids arent growing up with a sense of television as the aspirational place for their ideas.

Am I now supposed to go on Oprah and cry and tell you my deepest, darkest secrets because you want to know?

If you have done well in whatever business you are in, it is your duty to send the elevator back down and try to help bring up the next generation of undiscovered talent.

I'm not a writer. I marvel at writing. I am sometimes absolutely astounded when I read something and I think how in the world did that man or that woman sit down at a typewriter, a computer or a pen and an ink well, and seemingly have nothing come between their heart and that pen.

It's so easy for us to misperceive and see the things in others that we want to see. And, when we're wrong, and often we're dead wrong, we miss the truth.