If you watch 'E.T.' and say that there are holes in the story because this alien lands, then don't go to the movie! It drives me insane.

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.

The easiest way to leave the past behind is to remember that love does not live in the past, only memories — love lives in the present.

Do not say the land ahead does not exist, simply because you cannot see it.

Nothing is too late. It is only too late when you’ve completely given up.

We can disagree with one another without being raging, judgmental, spiteful, self-righteous lunatics. Can’t we?

0 God! Put back Thy universe and give me yesterday.

It's 103 comedians, or however many it is, and how would everyone tell it. It's enough people of substance that it makes you think of the people who aren't there that are alive.

When you're reading Thoreau you look at Hollywood differently, let me tell ya!

Without Jimmy (James) Dean the Beatles would never have existed.

I was very intensely concerned with all kinds of new media.

God has guarded His Word so that only the pure in heart can see its secrets. All other efforts will fail.