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!

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.

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.

You look disappointed to see me, Zach, " Macey teased. "Don't you like my jacket?

The pursuit of passion is a decisive purposeful living.

Words have no power, unless you give it to them.

To pine for the days before public education became a practical reality is to pine for an America held back by mass ignorance and mass illiteracy.

No, I had not read any other comedian's book. Not that I don't enjoy other comedians; I'm just not a reader.

Love born of anxiety resembles a thorn shaped so that efforts to pull it out of one's flesh merely cause it to penetrate more deeply therein.

Behind the clouds is the sun still shining.

What is important is the future. After 40 years of creation, I continue. This is what I love.

Never let any mistake cause you to stop believing in yourself. Learn from it and go on.

If intellect and will are correctly centered, the emotional life takes on harmony.