It takes a very strange person to enjoy fame, with all the by-products that come with it. It’s not necessarily a thrill.
I think it’s your duty to overcome what you inherit in life.
My life is a party thrown for me by my own decisions.
Prayer is when you talk to God. Meditation is when you’re listening. Playing the piano allows you to do both at the same time.
Apologizes are pointless, regrets come too late. What matters is you can move, on you can grow.
While it is tempting to play it safe, the more we’re willing to risk, the more alive we are. In the end, what we regret most are the chances we never took.
Fame obviously has become a premium in everybody’s life. Everybody thinks they deserve it, everybody thinks they want it and most people really don’t enjoy it once they get it.
Life is supposed to get tough.
I got fired when I was a dishwasher at Denny’s. That set me back a little bit. You don’t realize how important dishwashers are until you do the job.
I was brought up to never lie. Sure, I have. But in the final mix, the lies I’ve told are far outweighed by the truths I’ve lived.
No day-to-day mishaps or indignities can really compromise your sense of self after you’ve survived a deep tragedy.
The greatest sin is judgment without knowledge.
I always thought Cheers ended well. You always anticipate that the characters, theough they’re leaving television, will somehow go on in another world of the imagination, which I think is good.
I don’t know if I’m addicted to fame; fame is more of an unpleasant circumstance of an addiction to creativity.
What I can control is how I react. I can’t control anything else.
I’m an actor and I’ve created a lasting and memorable character named Frasier, who is not me, but who most people think is. So when I have a chance to play something that’s different, I embrace it because it’s fun; also in this case, he’s a memorable character.
I became an actor, and because I had success as an actor, I became famous. I was acting for quite a while before I got famous; television made me famous. I guess that it’s television that is responsible for everybody’s desire to be famous.
A child is a reinvigorating experience. It almost does feel like immortality, but not in the way people think. It reminds us there are universal truths that are most simply seen through the mind of a young person.
My math is never sharper as when I meet an old girlfriend with a kid.