I think it's your duty to overcome what you inherit in life.
My life is a party thrown for me by my own decisions.
Prayer is when you talk to God. Meditation is when you're listening. Playing the piano allows you to do both at the same time.
While it is tempting to play it safe, the more we're willing to risk, the more alive we are. In the end, what we regret most are the chances we never took.
What I can control is how I react. I can't control anything else.
The mark of a man is one who knows he can' control his circumstances - but he can control his responses.
Life is supposed to get tough.
The greatest sin is judgment without knowledge.
I got fired when I was a dishwasher at Denny's. That set me back a little bit. You don't realize how important dishwashers are until you do the job.
Apologizes are pointless, regrets come too late. What matters is you can move, on you can grow.
No day-to-day mishaps or indignities can really compromise your sense of self after you've survived a deep tragedy.
I was brought up to never lie. Sure, I have. But in the final mix, the lies I've told are far outweighed by the truths I've lived.
A child is a reinvigorating experience. It almost does feel like immortality, but not in the way people think. It reminds us there are universal truths that are most simply seen through the mind of a young person.
My own take on it is that government will never adequately represent every person in the country. It can't. It's not possible. It's a multicultural, multifaceted society in which we live. The country, I think, thrives because it's willing to embrace many ideas at the same time, but once a decision is made you will be unpopular with many people. The business of our political leaders is to go ahead and make a decision and let the chips fall where they may. That's a very hard thing to do.
I went and did some things [rehab], and then of course my life didn't change that much [for a while], but I never missed work.
I always thought Cheers ended well. You always anticipate that the characters, theough they're leaving television, will somehow go on in another world of the imagination, which I think is good.
I'm an actor and I've created a lasting and memorable character named Frasier, who is not me, but who most people think is. So when I have a chance to play something that's different, I embrace it because it's fun; also in this case, he's a memorable character.
Alexander Pope once wrote that the theater aspires to wake the soul by gentle strokes of art - to raise the genius and to mend the heart.
I became an actor, and because I had success as an actor, I became famous. I was acting for quite a while before I got famous; television made me famous. I guess that it's television that is responsible for everybody's desire to be famous.
I don't know if I'm addicted to fame; fame is more of an unpleasant circumstance of an addiction to creativity.
The first thing I thought [when I read the script] was that Frasier was an intellectual at some points but also an Everyman - flawed and very insecure.
Fame obviously has become a premium in everybody's life. Everybody thinks they deserve it, everybody thinks they want it and most people really don't enjoy it once they get it.
It takes a very strange person to enjoy fame, with all the by-products that come with it. It's not necessarily a thrill.
