My kids have a competitive drive I never had growing up.

You've got to want it. I can give you a role. I can't give you a career.

I was 12 years old when I had my first job, delivering packages.

But my kids, my brothers' kids - they think about trying to top what we did.

I really enjoyed multicamera comedy. You film in front of a live audience, and it's kind of the best of both worlds. It's like doing a one-act play every week, but if you screw your lines up, you get to do it over.

My mother, whose interest in chemistry was rather minimal, nevertheless went to graduate school in the subject and married my father, for whom it was as important as life itself.

My brothers and sisters started having children at a very early age, and I was just there all alone at one point, like, 'What do I do?' And I thought the only thing I can do is create mine, make my family, and I did that.

Family comes first. You're the only thing they have.