“Pretty much any time in my career where I worked on television it was usually because of some financial woes or something.”

It’s so enjoyable to play a bad guy, you know.

Basically, if I ever went and worked on a crime drama or something, it was usually just for the work.

Im really bad at tests of any kind, so Im bad at auditions. I consider myself educated most of the time, but when Im under the gun, I just fail.

I’m not really often recognized – not really. Or if I am, nobody cares enough to come and tell me that they recognize me.

Don Knotts left [Andy Griffith Show] to pursue a movie career, so once he was gone I left too.

My voice had a long, nonstop career. It deserves to be put to bed with quiet and dignity, not yanked out every once in a while to see if it can still do what it used to do. It can’t.

In my career, there have been three things that were challenging: playing gay; playing a Jewish woman; and playing Anton Chekhov. The scariest part was playing Chekhov!

Don’t be afraid to ask people ‘why,’ ‘what if.’ Don’t be afraid to attack your career. Get in the game, don’t stay on the sidelines.

The failure of The Cable Guy impacted my career. I had to start writing and acting again.

I can see myself staying at Blackburn for the rest of my career – unless I move to another club at some stage

I have no particular career agenda.

It’s funny, but when I arrived in California to start college I was much more interested in becoming a surfer and cruise along in life from one beach to the next. I didn’t plan out any huge career for myself.