Television, in particular, doesn't look for talent; it looks for personas. You have a great persona? You can be a TV star..

Acting is not terribly important work, and I have always felt a bit of guilt about pursuing something that is so selfish. I love doing it, but it is ….

I think with challenge comes a little more fun..

People this stupid shouldn't be allowed to live..

I'm still bald, I just wear a toupee..

Israel is near and dear to my heart.

We made a deal that was acceptable to us. We got paid very handsomely for our final season..

I'm always more motivated by the pain of a funny character than by what makes him funny..

As George Costanza would say, when they're applauding, stop..

The actress (Heidi Swedberg) is this wonderful girl, and ... I love her! i couldn't figure out how to play off of her. Her instincts for doing a scen….

But I didn't know much about directing a movie..

It specifically says in the Torah that you can eat shrimp and bacon in a Chinese restaurant..

Thrilled that Gov. Romney enjoys my old character. I enjoyed the character he used 2 b 2. If he'd embrace that again, he'd b a great candidate..

Even when I was an actor in training, one criticism my teachers had was that I should think about directing instead of acting because the best actors….

The thing about For Better or Worse is the only thing that made me an okay director for that is that I have a sense of humor, and it was supposed to ….

But one sets of grandparents lived on Davidson Avenue in the Bronx and one lived in Manhattan and I had an aunt and uncle in Queens, so in my heart I….

Things that make me laugh range from a wonderful stand-up like Jerry Seinfeld, Louis C.K. and Chris Rock to my son Gabe, who does great improv work. ….

Life and families and babies are all joyous gifts. But if we do not begin to truly account for our numbers, we will surely create an ecological crisi….

I found that looking at the Israeli/Palestinian conflict from an outside vantage point was actually quite distancing. The history of the conflict, th….

Divorce is very difficult, especially on the kids. Of course, I'm the result of my parents having stayed together, so you never know..

Boston was a great town to go to college in. Maybe that's why there's so many colleges there. I love the town, and I loved Boston University..