It doesn't need to be a number one show, it just needs to be good.

But the one thing that I did do was establish myself as a good actor.

Then I did Mystic Pizza, just to do something I wasn't fat in.

I learned a lot from Dick Wolf. I'll always remember playing that character because it was such a good character. It was great to be able to be a character like that for television. I think the thing that I'll bring from the whole experience, the whole 10 years, is I had never been interested in the television business before.

If you try to go beyond your interests just for the sake of pretensions or wealth, your art becomes less legitimate.

And then, as the years went on, I just kept moving along, busting into doors and getting roles, until I started to actually believe that what these other people were saying was true.