"My mother raised three children on her own and my dad was a doctor working 16 hours a day."

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"My mother raised three children on her own and my dad was a doctor working 16 hours a day."

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"You couldn't pay me enough to be a law enforcement officer. Their job is a tough job. You have to solve people's problems, you have to baby-sit people, you have to always be doing this cat-and-mouse game with the bad guys. My respect for them is immense."

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"In my own defense, I wrote a one-man show, and that to me was more where I fit."

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"TV's hard work. I don't know how the hell Angela Lansbury survived doing 'Murder, She Wrote' all those years. And sure, everyone wants to be Bruce Willis or George Clooney - they want to be in film for the range of characters you get to play."

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"How that works is our first season was the year we had a threatened writers' strike, so what we did was that instead of doing 22 episodes, we did 30. We put 10 in the bank."

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"My wife has brought great beauty into my life. And my daughter has brought me nothing but joy. Those qualities were greatly lacking."

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"I don't get called very often to play innocents."

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"I've got the best of all worlds. It's every actor's dream to wake up in New York City and go to an acting job rather than to a restaurant to wash dirty dishes. And I live so close to the studios that I ride my bike to work."

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"I think we present extreme aspects of human behavior and hopefully get at times, messages across or bring issues to the table or as we so often say, shed light into the dark crevices of human nature."

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