It was a big part of his life, ... He opened the school [as facilities director] in 1965. He would get there at 6 a.m.

Good writing will bring you to places you don't even expect sometimes.

I have a little bit of a temper, but it's ... a useless temper, ... It doesn't accomplish anything, generally. It's just a lot of ranting and raving and nothing, so David (Chase) probably saw that and put it into the character.

I was in bed, and I got the script and I was reading it, and I said, 'Man, this is really good, there's no way I'll get hired for this!'

He got that from my mother,

Both my mother and father were very supportive of any career move any of us wanted to make, ... The nice thing about my father is that he spent a lot of time with his children. We had a good time with my father.