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

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.

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.

I just can't afford to get bored, because if you've been blessed with a generous imagination, which a lot of actors have, to be engaged, to be stimulated, is to liberate your imagination.

35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give it.

I'm a great believer in the beauty and the power of surprise.

Compromise is when one person wants to rob a bank and the other person does not, and they compromise to rob a person outside of the bank.

Anything worth doing is worth doing well.

Everybody has a different kind of talent and a different timetable as to when they develop.

Emotion turning back on itself, and not leading on to thought or action, is the element of madness.

I never think that there's something I can't do, whether it's beating my opponent one on one or practicing another hour because something about my game is just not right.

If Shakespeare was around today I would ask him out to dinner. The only thing I don't like about him is the way he did his hair.

I just had a child on purpose at age 56, I'm pretty f---ing optimistic.

The exciting part of acting, I don't know how else to explain it, are those moments when you surprise yourself.