It's not good for people to have the safety net too low... People can take care of themselves better than we allow them to.

I was a dog in a past life. Really. I'll be walking down the street and dogs will do a sort of double take. Like, Hey, I know him.

Yeah, I made it. It sneaks up on you. You're some schmuck and you wake up one day and you go, Good God, I'm the cheese.

The ratings system is so bogus and people know it. Fewer and fewer people care. The ratings board has sort of exposed itself. But my problem is, as a parent, there's this area of film that my daughters want to see. They're not my kind of films, I don't want to go see them, but I really want to know whether my daughters can see them or not. The morality of what the ratings board is doing now escapes me. I don't get it.

I'm really proud of the writing on Door to Door, and I think that's the Emmy that meant the most - the writing.

I'll tell you this about the Oscars - they're real.

Nobody became an actor because he had a good childhood.