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.

Some genres I'm not a huge fan of but there are always exceptions that break the rules. There are always a few people doing it in a way weird enough to grab my attention.

I'm terribly sad about Farrah's passing. She was incredibly brave, and God will be welcoming her with open arms.

We can make mayors and officers every year, but not scholars.

Saddam Hussein has been brutal against his people, but when he was committing those crimes, the international community did not come to the rescue of the Iraqis.

When you're the single French person in the middle of 10 Tunisians, the majority will impose their way of life on the minority.

Every citizen's vote should count in America, not just the votes of partisan insiders in the Electoral College.

In their heyday, comics were a dominant force in popular culture, but that's over.

I still like to walk around and take photographs, but it's hard to do that if a lot of people are looking at you.

YouTube is a free service that is extremely easy to use. There are no downloads, and hundreds of audio and video formats are instantly converted to Flash, which makes it fast and easy for the community to watch and share video.

More than 100 people are involved in a transplant operation... and we can't waste time and resources if there is a chance the caretakers aren't up for an awesome responsibility.

While democracy must have its organization and controls, its vital breath is individual liberty.

The kind of neuroscience that I do and my colleagues do is almost like the weatherman. We are always chasing storms. We want to see and measure storms - brainstorms, that is.

It's funny now how much we look at - whatever you want to call it: art, design, culture stuff, film - online, and how in the online world, you're instantly global.

Things that look like an 'overnight success' typically are not.

There are a million things I can think of that I would I want to do. Reporting like you, would be one. A talk show host maybe, also. I want to do a lot.

A major difficulty is that the answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx is partly a product of the answers that we already have given to the riddle in its various forms.

Shrouds have no pockets

Sometimes a script comes along that really makes you sit up and pay attention... 'Life at These Speeds' has an emotional intensity that really kicked me in the guts.

Triple tongued is triple named.

Kids kill a show! It's, like, a fun concept when the character is pregnant, but then if a show runs for a while, I'm sorry, but it gets annoying when it starts to talk. You get a child actor in there, and unless that child actor is freakin' awesome, it's going to be annoying.

God knows I detest slavery but it is an existing evil, and we must endure it and give it such protection as is guaranteed by the Constitution.

Portland, Oregon won't build a mile of road without a mile of bike path. You can commute there, even with that weather, all the time.

Virtually every society that survived did so by socializing its sons to be disposable. Disposable in war; disposable in work. We need warriors and volunteer firefighters, so we label these men heroes.

My point is simply this: I believe I have a calling. Do you know what that calling is? To stand up in a new and hard core, radical way for the Lord. In the process, if I insult a couple of people, if I offend a couple of people, and if I got to shake it up a little bit, as long as it is led by the Holy Spirit, amen.