When you go to a movie, it's about what's not being said. I tried to bring that to Greg Sumner. It was always about what's not being said.

I'm an Irish-American, and I grew up in an Irish-American neighborhood.

Ultimately the Emmys are a popularity contest.

If you watch Cheers, in 12 years they didn't age a day.

I'm trying to find a character that's my age and I can sustain week after week. I'd like to do a series.

Even though shows like NYPD Blue are soaps in my opinion, but they're individualized to an extent that you can still follow what's going on if you miss a week.

What I would have liked to do on that show was play a secretary of state who has huge personal business interests throughout the world. That, to me, seems to be more in synch with reality.