July 12: Cancer

"There is a way people like to compartmentalize you on sitcoms and I've been very cognizant of not letting that happen."

"I smoked at the time and would never have my picture taken with a cigarette because I didn't want anyone to start smoking because I did."

"Look, I'm not your average man in his 50s. I don't have the gray hair slicked back, I don't have glasses on, I'm not in a coat and tie. My persona was always what a man was never supposed to be: outrageous, gregarious, crazy, silly, funny. But my mother told me, 'Never change, be who you are, do the good things that you do and let them think whatever they think.' "