Television, in particular, doesn’t look for talent; it looks for personas. You have a great persona? You can be a TV star.

I have always wanted to play Sweeney in ‘Sweeney Todd.’

I met the real George Steinbrenner on only one occasion when he actually came and played himself on an episode of ‘Seinfeld.’ He seemed to really enjoy himself. I did not get to know him,...

One of the downsides of being a poker pro is that people see exactly how you play.

Jerry Seinfeld has an interesting theory. He goes, ’20 pounds up or down, and you lose your funny.’

There are always things that I’d love to do. As an actor, none of them are specific; all I’m looking for are things that are good quality, that are challenging for me to work on,...

I guess the Reagan era is defined as the ‘I want it all for me, and screw everybody else’ era.

What you find with singers, no matter where they’re from, if they have any kind of an accent, the accent tends to disappear when they sing.

The show is like an Edwardian play – emotional life gets stepped on for the sake of accepted manners, and that’s terrific for actors to play in.

I have no illusions about having another ‘Seinfeld’ in my life.

I was the teenage kid growing up in New Jersey watching the Tony Awards and thinking, ‘Oh, maybe if I’m lucky I’ll make it to Broadway by the time I’m 40!’

We made a deal that was acceptable to us. We got paid very handsomely for our final season.

Jerry Seinfeld made a puddle, I stepped in it, and wonderful things happened.

We see and hear about Israelis and Palestinians only when they are defined by the global media as ‘occupiers,’ ‘terrorists,’ and ‘victims.’ But we forget that they are fathers and mothers and sons and daughters...

I love smart comedy.

Where are reliable journalism and reliable investigative voices going to come from? I love the days of old – the Walter Cronkites, the Dan Rathers.

There is no community service in ‘Seinfeld.’ But rather than lauding that, I think it shows the insane banality of it.

I started balding at age 17 and after first being sad, I really embraced it.

I’ve gotten a lot of compliments on the ‘Criminal Minds’ guy. I guess it’s because the look of that character is so different from what people expect of me.

Even when I was an actor in training, one criticism my teachers had was that I should think about directing instead of acting, because the best actors see the material they’re working on through blinders....

Most of the musical film work that I have done has been in this realm of what I think of as real family entertainment.

I’m still bald, I just wear a toupee.

But one sets of grandparents lived on Davidson Avenue in the Bronx and one lived in Manhattan and I had an aunt and uncle in Queens, so in my heart I was a New Yorker.

I went into performing for the community. Being backstage with your company of fellows is the best part of working in live theater. That energy, that combined focus, the synergy – it’s addictive.

I think that I have very few personal gifts to bring to real politics.

In New York, the theater is a destination point. In Los Angeles, no matter how provocative, how successful, how star-studded the theater event may be, it is, at best, a second-class citizen.

I found that looking at the Israeli/Palestinian conflict from an outside vantage point was actually quite distancing. The history of the conflict, the personalities, the violence, the distrust, and the seeming lack of viable solutions...

Most stand-up comics relish performing ‘in one’ – solo. They like the autonomy.

You need to find the size of performance that’s appropriate to the material, appropriate to the shot, or appropriate to the scene.

Acting is not terribly important work, and I have always felt a bit of guilt about pursuing something that is so selfish. I love doing it, but it is never something that feels like it’s...

Things that make me laugh range from a wonderful stand-up like Jerry Seinfeld, Louis C.K. and Chris Rock to my son Gabe, who does great improv work. I also look backwards to the great comedic...

I was a shy and insecure kid and didn’t know quite where I fit.

It’s a question of finding the right thing, if I’m going to be an actor… if I have to get up eight times a week for a number of months, I want to be excited...

I kept being asked by corporations to do corporate gigs. And I said, ‘I don’t have anything. I’m not a stand-up. You want me to come sing show tunes for you? I don’t think so.’

Poker is just a hobby I’m passionate about. It’s not supposed to bring glory.

Boston was a great town to go to college in. Maybe that’s why there’s so many colleges there. I love the town, and I loved Boston University.

Actors go, ‘I just want to act.’ And I say to them, ‘You know, stop for a second and think about what charges you up the most. Do you want to be on the stage,...

I still don’t know much about directing a movie.

I was heavy as a kid. I mean, I kind of got it together for a while there in my 20s and early 30s.

Life and families and babies are all joyous gifts. But if we do not begin to truly account for our numbers, we will surely create an ecological crisis that will only lead to anguish and...

I know what it’s like to be in the closet! I know what it’s like to be bullied and attacked because someone or some group thought I was different or below them… so, I’m coming...

The greatest part of the job was… that was for nine years it was a pleasure to go to work.

‘Broadway Bound’ is near and dear to my heart, as it was one of my happiest times on Broadway.

When CNN does a story and then says, ‘Tweet us what you think’ – why? Why does it matter what I think? Why should my thoughts be broadcast on a national news program? It’s enough...

I would work with any one of them again in a heartbeat because it was joyous and incredibly easy.

I’m actually one of the more reluctant celebrities you will ever meet.

One of the reasons I love acting is because I’m so interested in other people’s lives, and I often incorporate things I hear or observe into my work. I’ve become a bit of a ‘person...

The thing about For Better or Worse is the only thing that made me an okay director for that is that I have a sense of humor, and it was supposed to be funny.

The necessity for ‘professionals’ in the entertainment industry is being constantly challenged.

I’m always more motivated by the pain of a funny character than by what makes him funny.