Tim Daly

For people like me, who have blocked out a chunk of their past, you wonder - if you open that door, if you walk into that room of your memories, what will happen? Will it destroy you or will it make you stronger?

I used to build lofts in SoHo back when there was nothing there. I had a stoop on West Broadway between Prince and Spring. My partner and I would sit there, eat dinner, and watch the world go by.

What can I say: I got started on the whole wife-and-kids thing at a young age. I had my kids while I was in utero.

What can I say: I got started on the whole wife-and-kids thing at a young age.

I will always look for things that are different from the last thing I played.

There are two jobs. There is being an actor, and there is being a celebrity. Some people are really good at both. Some people are really good celebrities and terrible actors, and some people are really good actors and terrible celebrities. Hopefully, I am a really good actor and an OK celebrity.

Twitter, just every once in a while I put something out there basically to promote whatever I'm doing, but I don't see any of that as representing me or who I am or being a brand.

I never have thought of myself as a brand. I've thought of myself as an artist.

I have no illusions of being the big box office draw. But I would like to have some choices.

I could have been a rich kid who stayed in college and got by on the path of least resistance, but I got much more out of being in the world and pulling my own weight.

I get offered a lot of parts where I want to say, 'Why don't you just hire a model? Don't hire an actor.' I'm trying to convince people I'm a real actor, not some mannequin.

What I've realized, and had to become comfortable with, is that I'm just, I don't think, a star. I'm an actor.