Perfection is intensely annoying. Audiences were ready for a character who didn't obey the usual pieties of modern life. |
Plainly, if your life is hanging in the balance, the most important thing to you at that moment is going to see the best person for the job, |
Really? I suppose reading the confidential psychiatric file of his ex-girlfriend. |
So he came back at 40 ... with a science degree, thinking, `Well, what am I going to do now?' and with two kids, he enrolled in medical school with a lot of 19-year-olds, ... an amazing thing. |
There's just sort of this assumption that whatever . . .the writers come up with, |
There's the clown in House, there's an adolescent in him, a child, a playful side. There's also a tormented self-destroyer as well. I get the best of all possible worlds. |
They, all of them, work incredibly hard to make me seem clever and heroic, neither of which I am. |
This may be my deficiency, but I don't think of him as great bastard at all. |
To drink a cup of tea and put two sugars in and open a door and answer a telephone becomes incredibly time-consuming, ... Every scene for me is about, where am I going to park the cane? When I pick this up, where am I going to put the cane? That's a physical constraint. |
To drink a cup of tea and put two sugars in and open a door and answer a telephone becomes incredibly time-consuming. Every scene for me is about, where am I going to park the cane? When I pick this up, where am I going to put the cane? That's a physical constraint. |
To me, he's a hero, ... He's not polite. He's not someone you want to take home to meet your mother, necessarily. This is a guy in search of truth. Incidentally, that truth one day could save your life or the life of someone you love. That's a heroic thing. |
We're getting a lot of air miles, ... I'll go back when I can, and they'll come here when they can. But it's tough. |