I started just naturally turning into a nicer person, and it actually helped broaden and lengthen my career.

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!"

If I had not lived the life I had lived and did not have the wife I have and the children I have, I would never know how to play that role [of Dr. Bedsloe], and I wouldn't have any of those qualities. It's a real example of how it is true that the camera catches everything. Even the stuff you're trying to hide.

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

I also remember that Snoop Dogg visited the set in New York, with a joint in his mouth that looked like a cigar. There's your anger management. I thought, "Isn't he going to get arrested?" It was like he lived on another planet. God bless him, he was very nice. Who wouldn't be nice when you're that stoned?

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

It's never good to just imitate somebody. That never works, because then you're not filling it with anything.