It Was Post War. It Was Very

So Much Luck! I'm Not Putting Myself Down, I'm Not Saying I Don't Have Talent - I Must Have, To Have Got This Far - But I Honestly Believe That Some Of The Greatest Actors In America Are Tending Bar And Waiting Tables And Driving Taxis, And It Will Never Happen For Them.

What I Mostly Do Is Take The Script, Analyse The Hell Out Of It, See What's In There, See What Kind Of Person I'm Dealing With, And Then Forget I'm Playing A Father And Just Play A Person Who Exemplifies All Those Things.

'frasier' Was A Classy Gig. I Didn't For One Minute Think It Was Less Prestigious Or Artistic Than Doing A Play.

I Didn't Want To Be The Archetypal Sponging Brother-in-law, So I Didn't Go Into Acting When I Got To The States. I Thought, 'no, I'll Go To School And Then I'll Be An English Teacher; That'll Be Fun.' But I Was Horrible As A Teacher. As Hard As I Tried, I Just Couldn't Inspire Those Kids To Take An Interest In Milton And Shakespeare And Donne.

I'm A Dog Person, I've Had Dogs All My Life. But You See, It's Not Really A Dog. It's More Like A Little Robot. It's An Actor. It Displays No Emotion Whatsoever. I Swear That Dog Doesn't Know Any Of Us Even Though We've Done Five Seasons Of Frasier.