I was working at a phone company. I got tired of my life and wanted to change it, so I did.

Let’s be real: It’s just TV; it’s just entertainment.

There is a lot going on in high schools, and I think what we portray is fairly accurate.

With Boston Public, you create a character and you have to find what their range of emotion will be, what kind of individual you are dealing with.

You have to take some dramatic license just to make it entertaining sometimes.

I had spent many years before I was 31 hearing people tell me, Oh Man, you’re so funny, you need to be in television. But that and a quarter won’t get you on a bus.

I’ve had a lot of people tell me they wish I were their principal.

In movies, I have had the opportunity of working with some of the people that I respect very much.

It is a different genre-a show about something other than doctors, lawyers and cops. Teachers are something completely different. I think it makes for very interesting television.

None of my checks from Paramount bounced.

Teachers are out there with a very difficult job, which they pursue with tireless dedication.