Quotes from Kelsey Grammer

I have always been a risk taker.

You have to know you are in a comedy. You have to know that you are actually allowing the audience to participate on some level. When you go dark and mean it, then you don't let them in.

'A Passage To India' by E. M. Forster - It opened my mind to a world I'd never known before.

The idea of self-reliance is important to me, and that is echoed, in my way of thinking, by a conservative approach to politics.

I don't tend to warm too well to people that tell me how I'm supposed to think. So, my life in Hollywood - I'm afraid I was destined to be a Republican.

There was one thing I loved a little bit more than surfing - and that was acting.

The mark of a man is one who knows he can' control his circumstances - but he can control his responses.

I had a kind of romantic notion about being a Hollywood Errol Flynn type. Honestly, I did not get into a lot of bar brawls - but I was always willing to. About the only thing missing from my story is that I haven't had a full knock-down fight in the middle of the Polo Lounge.

There's almost nothing better than a baguette and a pound of salami.

My life is a party thrown for me by my own decisions.

I became an actor, and because I had success as an actor, I became famous. I was acting for quite a while before I got famous; television made me famous. I guess that it's television that is responsible for everybody's desire to be famous.

I got fired when I was a dishwasher at Denny's. That set me back a little bit. You don't realize how important dishwashers are until you do the job.

I remember the defining moment when I first realised I was famous. I was in Africa staying in the little tent city there by the Masai Mara River. Two guys with spears looked at me and said, 'Frasier?'

The first thing I did on television was a PBS thing where I played a priest. It was a Walt Whitman or Carl Sandburg story - I can't quite remember - but I was a turn-of-the-20th-century priest kind of guy. Never saw it; don't know if I was any good or not.

Life is supposed to get tough.

As a Christian, we always fail because we can't become Christ. But I can try to at least emulate the best qualities, even if I may fall short.

I don't really want to go into it, because whenever I say anything about my past now, it becomes a pissing match... but I realised that I had acquiesced, in my 40s, to an idea of 'You know what, maybe this thing that you wanted in your life, maybe it just wasn't important.'

In camp when I was eight - a bunch of kids threw me outside naked. I got 'em back!

It takes a very strange person to enjoy fame, with all the by-products that come with it. It's not necessarily a thrill.

Prayer is when you talk to God. Meditation is when you're listening. Playing the piano allows you to do both at the same time.

'Frasier' works because we stay focused on the idea that - how he continues to grow. It is not that you are really - the mission is not to try to keep him fresh; the idea is if you naturally put a character in a situation that demands growth of him, then he will remain fresh.

I hope they find some way to come up with a new story that involves Beast in my timeline.

Tolerance actually does exist on Broadway.

I think it's important to approach a house in a way that's reflective of the original environment. Maybe I'm a sentimentalist, but I think that certain geographies call out for certain architecture. I like residences that reflect their place.