I did an episode of 'Frasier' with my friend Kelsey Grammer once.

TV tends to look for the living equivalents of squeaky-clean Kens and Barbies, but with my dial I'm more like Ken's dirty old uncle.

As an actor, it's great to play a strong leader with a heart of gold.

I like to be in waiting rooms with people as they're auditioning, because their terror calms me.

My son walked up to Nicole on the beach and I was throwing the ball for the dogs in the ocean... I was like, Max you get the dogs. I’ll talk to the hot blondes.

I would love to have a photographic memory. It would come in handy with the rants I'm given on Scrubs... often on short notice!

Dr. Cox mentors the rookie doctors with a spoonful of dirt and then a cup of sugar. I see him as an archetypal descendent of two of my favorite curmudgeonly characters: Lou Grant and Louie De Palma.

I'm a homebody. If I'm not working I'm with my family being a dad.

The idea for actors is to make a living telling stories, so if you can do that, then you’re way ahead of the game.

Turns out, Down syndrome is the most common genetic disorder, occurring once in every 800 births, and no one really knows why it happens. It just does.

I wanted to be Red Barber, Mel Allen or Howard Cosell. I loved their personalities and all of their sounds.

The wretchedness of ordinary life, endured so gaily when it is part of our normal existence, is made far worse when it comes as something new, and is exaggerated by the working of the imagination.

Every man must at last accept himself for his portion and learn to do his work with the tools and talents with which he has been endowed.

Martin Luther King wanted to be morally consistent and speak out against various things that were wrong, not just racism.

I have four kids, seven grandkids, and four great-grandkids. Maybe I can become a great-great-grandfather if I hang on!

Consciousness is not personal. Human consciousness is just an expression of universal consciousness, which pervades the entire universe.

The BBC has the obligation to think big. And at the moment, that clarion call sounds an uncertain note to me.

The crimes of extreme civilization are probably worse than those of extreme barbarism, because of their refinement, the corruption they presuppose, and their superior degree of intellectuality.

Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it.

It's too easy to get swept up; doing things because the opportunities are there, not because we're burning to do them.

When the world sees us doing evangelism, they just see us recruiting. When they see us doing justice, they see God's glory.