I wouldn't have the life I have without television. I wouldn't be looking out my apartment window onto the East River I wouldn't be able to afford to have my mother with me this summer. So television has been very good to me.

I like to use my hands. When I was in theatre in college, that was one of my biggest notes: 'You use your hands too much.

I don't think I ever wanted fame.

I started out doing theater and a soap in New York and that's... sort of what I got stuck in. I was blessed enough to have long runs, and it's sort of hard sometimes then to get out.

I think if I have any kind of unique gift, it's more in the comedy area than it is in the dramatic area.

The business of living - that's your artwork, and the process of that is finding out who you are, what it all means.

There's a definition of narcissism that when a parent is narcissistic, instead of the child seeing himself reflected in the mother's face and the mother's joy, the child of the narcissistic parent feels like, 'What can I do to make her okay, to make her happy?'

If you're cast right you can actually just let yourself go because all your gestures will be right, all your intonations will be right because you just somewhere understand who this person is.