I Did The Commish And

I Think They [tv Productions] Were Just Kind Of Drying Up. I'd Done A Couple Of Episodes, But Nothing Was Happening. So I Went To Vancouver To Visit A Buddy And See What Was Going On, And That Year Was Crazy. Vancouver Was On Fire At That Point. It Was All These Stephen J. Cannell Productions - The Commish Being One Of Them - And In One I Was A Bartender, And I Think I Had Five Lines.

There Was Not An Episode [on Perception] That Didn't Deal With Some Form Of Mental Illness, Either My Own, Or I Would Be The First To Notice If A Defendant Did A Certain Thing That Perhaps He Was Suffering From This. And So We Got To Do Some Really Outspoken Stuff For What Was Otherwise A Crime-solving Show. And It Was Just A Really Good Team.

Every Actor Has Periods Of Their Life That Are A Little Less Busy Than Others, And That Was Just A Time When I Needed That. And To Be Back On A Sitcom Stage, With Julia [ Louis-dreyfus], Was Really, Really Fun.

Back When I Was In Theater School, Trying To Figure Out What I Was Going To Do With My Life, 'sweeney Todd' Was A Huge Touchstone For Me, My Favorite Musical For Sure.

You Make A Lot Of Mistakes. I Haven't Seen That Movie [the Lost World] In 20 Years. But If I Saw It, I'm Sure I Could Pick Out A Whole Lot Of Mistakes.