My wife, Katey Sagal, has transformed herself from a sitcom cartoon to a dramatic powerhouse.

I'm a guy desperately in need of buffers. I have big feelings, big reactions, big emotions. All the things that serve me as an artist, but challenge me as a socially-responsible human being.

I always have a sense of where I want to end each season, emotionally and relationship wise and with the theme, and I'm always able to hit that.

The lazy blogosphere has given up on journalism and now trolls Twitter for their on-the-record in-depth articles.

I love being able to stay real to the world.

All the people who follow me on Twitter know my sense of humor. I sometimes forget the blogosphere will give it more weight than I intended.

I can be arrogant, I can be insufferable.

My production team doesn't like not knowing what anything is going to look like, but creatively, that's fun.

I think there's a part of me that feels the need to hide a little bit behind a character.

As an actor, I've been drawn to those characters that are further away from who I may be.

Unlike fiction, which you create before you go into production, with reality you kind of create it after everything is produced. The drama and the storytelling is really done in post.

Don't live to be judged for what you haven't done. Live to be judged for what you have done.

Suffering needs time. It cannot survive in the now.

Language is man's way of communicating with his fellow man and it is language alone which separates him from the lower animals.

I'm not a great singer

The better you are as a parent, the richer the nest you've built, the more difficult it is for your kids to leave. So they have to invent things to dislike about you. And they're brilliant at it.

I look upon the too good opinion that man has of himself, as the nursing mother of all false opinions, both public and private.

And usually [the philosopher] philosophizes either in order to resign himself to life, or to seek some finality in it, or to distract himself and forget his griefs, or for pastime and amusement.

Consider your honour, as a gentleman, of more weight than an oath.

Friendship is necessary to our well-being—not just nice but necessary. We all hunger for it; it’s a universal need.

Women are very intelligent and not appreciated. We try to pretend that we are not clever, and it's such a pity that we can't show how clever we are.