The best thing to do, if you really want to be good, is drink vodka all day, from the second you get up to the second they say, "Cut!"

Why focus on what somebody might think? Nobody talks [on TV] like people really talk most of the time.

I did so much theater, where everybody I worked with was so much better than me, that I just sort of learned.

In general, I did what a lot of character actors do: I did it to get girls.

I always had to rely on humor and sarcasm. And when I started having kids, that doesn't work with kids. Kids don't understand sarcasm, and they certainly don't understand my humor.

I had no idea that, when you audition for television or movies, you go to a big building - like, an office building - and you walk in the room, and everybody, I assumed, was smarter than me and better than me, and there's actors you recognize. I once fainted at an audition.

Without being good enough, I started figuring out how to make my way through the minefield of a script, which is what it was to me at the time, and the rest is semi-history.