No one could have ever dreamed about how well the show would do.

No one could have ever dreamed about how well the show would do.

But when I did think about it and looked at the whole package - the producers behind the show, the writers, the cast I would be working with - I would have been a fool to turn it down just because the role for me was another gay role.

You don't have a face to work with, so your voice has to do all the work until you see the animation. So, a lot of it I had to pull back because it was too big.

I got one letter at the very beginning, like, in the first season, saying - from a woman who was very religious, very Christian, saying how wrong she thought the show was, but she thinks it's the funniest show on television.

And I'd like to believe that's true, you know, kind of showing gay people in this kind of light and - where it's not about that, it's just about the characters for the first time, like those shows were.

I actually like working with the other three actors on the show.

The writers have slowly taken the show, with subjects other gay shows have dived right into, slowly. It was over a year before Will even started to date.

They might have a long way to go before truly accepting gay people into their lives, but they have accepted the show into their living rooms each and every week.

Nobody makes me laugh.

Through that, I got to know Jerry's work, and I am definitely his number-one fan right now, which is interesting because it usually works the other way around: you usually create a project based on your hero.

And I'm OK being judged as an actor.

And so, I think when I got to college, you discover who you are and find yourself more than you did before.

At the beginning of 'Will and Grace', I played Jack as the funny next-door-neighbor type, as we've seen in the past. And I thought that was my role.

Being an actor, the less people know about my personal life, the more open-minded they can be about each role I play.

But I'm guessing every actor is insecure.

I have the most nervous stomach in the world.

I like to be busy and I like to have places to go in the morning, when I get up.

I think because my life is so insane and it's constantly going at 120 miles per hour, my favorite thing to do is sit at home in front of the TV and check out.

I'm a huge sci-fi/fantasy/horror guy. I love anything in the sci-fi or fantasy genre.

No, my entire life is planned. It's called time management.

So get accomplished what you want to get accomplished in your life. And in the intervals, do what you can to help other people.

The thing about producing is that the pressure is off of being in front of the camera, and being critiqued and judged in that way, but there are other pressures producing.

When I came out of my mom's womb, I had 'sitcom' stamped on my forehead.

I was never a natural. I got there in the end because I did believe that if you work hard enough, then you can achieve a lot.

Between his eyes, there were four lines, the marks of such misery as children should never feel. He spoke with that wonderful whisky voice that so many Spanish children have, and he was a tough and entire little boy.

You need to put drones under control; you need to lay out certain rules of engagement in order to prevent or minimize collateral casualties. It is extremely important.

The human crowd has been the lesson of my life. I can come to it with the born timidity of the poet, with the fear of the timid, but once I am in its midst, I feel transfigured. I am part of the essential majority, I am one more leaf on the great human tree.

Dr. Rice went well beyond offering a helping hand - she went so far as to shed tears and share hugs with those who, in a matter of just a few hours, had lost everything to the rising floodwaters.

You're all right, as long as you don't believe your own hype.

Denial can be a pathology or a survival mechanism and sometimes its both.

I love CNN. I love the Cartoon Network. I mean, I thought these things up.

The power to arrest - to deprive a citizen of liberty - must be used fairly, responsibly, and without bias.

I think one of the most humiliating moments of my life was putting on spandex, personally. It's always nice when four women pull you into spandex when you're in jockey shorts. Yeah.

One way to make a positive out of a negative is that you can put it into your work.

I don't think you just can put people on the starting block and then wait... for the next Ebola-like epidemic. I think that you need somehow a small-capacity response who's going to run the first few kilometers of the marathon.

I was interested in opera and it seemed to me that the only possible theatre for contemporary opera would be television. So I started working towards a kind of television kind of opera.

I have many friends who are both Mexican and Mexican-American and others who, I guess you would say, are somewhere in between. The ironic thing is that all three of those categories often exist inside of the same family.

Repetition not for monotony but the ecstasy it induces.

Our party must continue to strike fear in the heart of the white man, our real enemy!

Those who consent to the act and those who do it shall be equally punished.

Obey your head. Obey your heart. Obey your gut. In fact, obey everything except commands.

I'm pretty convinced there's a chemical reality to who I am, regarding my brain, that makes me kind of a strange guy.

Behind every successful woman is a best friend giving her crazy ideas.

I am devoted to my husband and son. I am devoted to the practices and rituals that imbue our lives with a sense of meaning and purpose, that help me to live my days in the most emotionally and intellectually productive manner. I am devoted to the idea of devotion itself.

Love is full of anxious fears.

Letting someone down is not criminal action.

I've been very lucky, and therefore I owe it to try and reduce the inequity in the world. And that's kind of a religious belief. I mean, it's at least a moral belief.