I come from a wonderful family. My mother was a pianist and my father was a salesman. They were very middle-class, very middle-Western..

I've always been slightly self-conscious as an actor, and I guess that sometimes reads as pomposity. Starting when I was 30, I somehow gave off an im….

I came out of school just at the time regional theater was first expanding. All of a sudden, lots of new companies needed actors..

Frankly, to be honest, I hadn't worked for two years before 'Murphy Brown.' It's a nice illusion now to think of all of us as terribly successful and….

When you're starting out as an actor, you keep raising the stakes. First, you just want to be a character who comes on stage and gets a laugh or two ….

I didn't want to break with my family. I wasn't about to make waves. But I had this feeling I wanted to do something that I liked to do. Acting's wha….