If you fixate on the worst-case scenario and it actually happens, you’ve lived it twice.

I urge you to be challenged and inspired by what you do not know.

I was eccentric, even as a kid. I was an early reader, an early talker. I was very curious in a way that maybe the other kids weren't. I was a little more outgoing.

I always felt that I came up short in the education department, but I've come to the conclusion that we all get an education.

If you have doubts about someone, lay on a couple of jokes. If he doesn't find anything funny, your radar should be screaming. Then I would say be patient with people who are negative, because they're really having a hard time.

Just as Parkinson's isn't a big topic of conversation in my house, neither is my career.

The 'Rescue Me' gig was a unique opportunity to play a character - a misanthropic, angry guy - who was so contrary to how people think of me.