If you take one rivet out of an airplane, it will be all right, it’ll keep flying. You take another rivet out of the airplane and it still flies. So what the heck, let’s take...

To do something funny, you have to have experienced it in real life and digested it in a way that amuses you.

The planet will survive. Whether we get to be here and enjoy it, or enjoy life as we’ve known it, is what’s questionable.

I don’t think I’m as educated as Whoopi, so I’m lifting myself to her level. But you know, our view of the world, our view of what we can do, our sense of what it...

We are so arrogant, we forget that we are not the reason for evolution, we are not the point of evolution. We are part of evolution. Unfortunately, we believe that we’ve been created to dominate...

I’m an actor, so I am always scared. You never know if you are on vacation or that you have been retired and they just didn’t tell you.

Looking out at the ocean, it’s easy to feel small – and to imagine all your troubles, suddenly insignificant, slipping away. Earth’s seven oceans seem vast and impenetrable, but a closer look tells another story.

Address these environmental issues and you will address every issue known to man. And we keep dabbling in things that aren’t really that important in the long term.

To grow up knowing you’re loved is astounding. It’s a huge gift to a child.

My day goes from one embarrassing moment to the next.

I first saw the ocean as a kid. We would drive from Arizona in the summer and arrive as the sun was starting to come down over the hill near Laguna in southern California. We...

My most annoying habit is complaining about my aches and pains. It’s the new ones that I haven’t identified yet that make me nervous. According to my wife, I complain way too much. I may...

I’m at the right age to work with dead people, but you have to be smart to be a CSI.

Most of us can now record a whole series with the click of a button. We all have DVD players, and the rise of the DVD box-set means we watch this stuff in two, three-hour...

I am forever grateful for ‘Cheers.’

Usually if you’re the center of a show, part of your job is to host its energy.

California is responsible for selling, trading and distributing large amounts of shark fins that come from all over the world.

I got my first television at Stanford when I was 20, and I used to watch ‘The Dick Van Dyke Show’. He played my father on ‘Becker,’ and he’s still one of my heroes. Along...

Many people continue to think of sharks as man-eating beasts. Sharks are enormously powerful and wild creatures, but you’re more likely to be killed by your kitchen toaster than a shark!

I’m from L.A. I’m an actor. I’m a flake.

One of the hardest things for me to do is watch myself. The first time I see it, I am obsessed with my left ear or my right ear or some other physical attribute, or...

One of the ingredients that made Cheers work so well was the great ensemble of actors we had. That’s the case with any good series.

When you have brothers, you learn to be fiercely competitive with someone you love so they won’t kill you and you won’t kill them.