David Hyde Pierce

I would always fall down the big main staircase in our house. My favorite thing in the world was to pretend to be horribly killed at the top of it, and to fall dramatically down to the bottom of it.

I don't have the time to tell you all the things I've learned from this cast. It's an extraordinary ensemble because we all support each other so well.

I found every single laugh as Laertes that you can find and only realized later that you really shouldn't find any at all.

A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.

Democracy, loudly upheld as a cure for much of the ailing world, has proved no guarantor of political wisdom, even if it remains the least bad form of government.

Alzheimer's disease starts when a protein that should be folded up properly misfolds into a kind of demented origami.