When I perform on stage, you have to remember my performance or buy another ticket to the party! In television and film, you can see it over and over again.

I never like to refer back to anything I've done when I'm working on a character, even if that character has the same occupation.

After 'Breaking Bad,' people are very frightened of who I am. They back away from me on the street.

When you're speaking Spanish, you're thinking in a different way.

Like lots of baby boomers, I was brought up on archaic anthropomorphism. Upstanding Christian dogs. Rabbits with family values. Because the ancient texts and pictures were sacred - Potter, Milne and the rest. Even concerned parents who knew Freud and Jung never saw the contradictions in feeding us on them.

A friend of mine has a son who became deaf through meningitis. He called me one spring and asked me to keep a week out of my schedule because he wanted to start a school for deaf kids. I wanted to help.

The most romantic thing a guy has ever done for me is starting a family. That's as romantic as it gets.

The family sitcom has been around forever, since the advent of television. I don't need to reinvent it. But if you take something and you do it in a way that you haven't necessarily seen before, that's right where I live.