Learn your lines.' I want that on my gravestone.

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.

Leadership by deception isn't leadership. It's fraud.

Move to a new country and you quickly see that visiting a place as a tourist, and actually moving there for good, are two very different things.

You all are the reason for my existence, if there is no YOU, there is no ME

Baseball is very big at the present time. This makes me think baseball will live longer than Casey Stengel or anybody else.

You cannot say, 'Go! Go! Rah! Rah! Good move!' People want some emotion. Chess is an art and not a spectator sport.

We plan alone but we fulfill our plans together with the enemy, as it were, in accordance with his opposition.

Photography, when used as a representational art, is not a mere copy of nature. This is proved by the rarity of the 'good' photograph.

I'm really fortunate because, in my career, I haven't had to deal with anybody trying to make me something I'm not.

I believe that God locates himself at the spot where you recognize your own fallibility....And the paradox of it all has been that whenever I give up I seem to do better.

Friendship is not a thing I have ever experienced. Not as a child, and not as I am now.