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I Like To Learn The Lines And Not Get Any Precontrived Things In My Head About The Part. Just Get On Stage And See What The Other Actors Are Doing, And Respond To Them As Honestly As I Can.

I'm A Dog Person, I've Had Dogs All My Life. But You See, It's Not Really A Dog. It's More Like A Little Robot. It's An Actor. It Displays No Emotion Whatsoever. I Swear That Dog Doesn't Know Any Of Us Even Though We've Done Five Seasons Of Frasier.

Actually I Was Born In 1940 In Blackpool Because My Family Lived In Manchester But Manchester Was Being Bombed. So My Mother Was Sent Away To Blackpool To Have Me And Then Went Back; So I Lived My First Eighteen Years In Manchester And Then Emigrated To The States When I Was Eighteen.

What I Mostly Do Is Take The Script, Analyse The Hell Out Of It, See What's In There, See What Kind Of Person I'm Dealing With, And Then Forget I'm Playing A Father And Just Play A Person Who Exemplifies All Those Things.

My First Acting Class Was Taught By A Little Known Playwright, David Mamet, Who Then Cast Me In My First Play, Opposite John Malkovich.