I prefer to have longevity. I like as great a variety as possible, hopefully to avoid getting stuck in one kind of character, having to do it over and over again. I seek to challenge myself as an actor - and at the same time support my family.

It's essential for an actor to have a hobby for the time when the telephone doesn't ring.

I'll miss everyone on Dallas so much, but I have a wonderful career ahead of me. I can feel it.

The nice thing about 'Futurama' for me personally was that it was a way to honor some of the traditional ideas in literary science fiction, not so much movie or television science fiction - although we have that too, obviously. Our situation, a workplace comedy, led to all sorts of stuff.

Mitch Glazer and I went to high school together, and his mother was my English teacher for two years. She was my favorite teacher, and I followed Mitch's career as a journalist, so we've kind of kept in touch over the years.

The only time a friend has ever helped me in the industry was how I got my first job - that was through Mike Figgis.