I got my Equity card from an audition out of Backstage. We did 'Guys and Dolls' and 'Kismet.'

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.

One can become ‘Embodiment of Love’ [Prem Swaroop], only when there is no my-ness [mamata].

Just because words come out of somebody's mouth doesn't make them true.

To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.

You're encouraged to do the same kind of movies. But I would like to keep doing different things.

I'm the policy-maker; I'm the lawmaker.

What someone is, begins to be revealed when his talent abates, when he stops showing us what he can do.

Study words so that you can use them significantly, effectively, worthily.

So far he's bringing his A-game.

Christ wears "two shoes" in the world: scripture and nature. Both are necessary to understand the Lord, and at no stage can creation be seen as a separation of things from God.

Flexibility has become a modern day value that everyone wants. But flexibility comes with a cost.