I've been telling anybody who would listen that I wanted to do a series for the last 10 years. But I wouldn't do it if I was just another cop pushing bad guys up against the wall.

I think you can find yourself on one of these shows for a long period of time and think that all you'll ever be able to do is that character. Certainly people think of you that way.

I can't figure out how they decide on those things. So I don't have any regrets about anything that I did that didn't get a lot of people to see it.

I know a lot of actors who've just gotten bitter because they did something and then nobody ever saw it or whatever.

I had panic attacks during rehearsal. There were times when I really thought I wasn't going to be able to do it.

Grissom is a character who doesn't really want people poking around in his life. He likes to poke around in his work.

The beard is here because I got tired of shaving and Grissom, subsequently, got tired of shaving. Grissom, like any other 50-year-old man, is going through a series of mid-life changes. Who knows, he may start drinking.