Quotes from Tim Daly

'Wings' offered me the rare opportunity to be a full-time dad and a working actor for eight years.

My natural self is John Goodman. If I relaxed, I'd be him.

I'm probably my own harshest critic. If I get a hundred good reviews and one really bad one, it's that one out of a hundred that I remember. I think we actors are hard on ourselves, and I don't know why that is.

'Superman' was a total accident. The producers of the animated series were having a hard time finding someone to read the character. I was brought in through a connection and, I think, out of desperation.

I have no illusions of being the big box office draw. But I would like to have some choices.

People are human beings. They talk about stuff, they make mistakes, they try to impress each other with their tidbits.

'Wings' was a blessing, but it was also very difficult. Whenever you do situation comedy, no matter how excellent the execution - and we had a great cast and great writers - but the format is somewhat limited.

I was a little bit of a slob who was sort of surrounded by dirty laundry. I can trace the exact moment that I became a tidy human being, and that moment was the day my son Sam was born.

I have this burgeoning reputation for playing a scumbag.

Eastern medicine is not about curing your sickness. It's about keeping you well.

I think I'm a lot more complicated than my looks might indicate.

Well, I have a farm in Vermont that's my main residence, where I do lots of digging and mowing, and ride tractors - just so you don't get the wrong idea that I'm too girlie!

What can I say: I got started on the whole wife-and-kids thing at a young age. I had my kids while I was in utero.

What can I say: I got started on the whole wife-and-kids thing at a young age.

I love getting on the subway because you get on the car, and you see the entire human race represented in any given subway car.

I am a member of the human race. There's a certain irony about the cyberworld. You don't know who is talking to you, if it's a machine, so I tend to try to reach out to those fellow humans.

It's become a cliche to think of marriage as a disaster area and a war zone.

I just can't stand the fact that they're going out on their own - I love having my kids around, and I'm angry at them for going out and becoming independent. I want to tuck them in and drive them to school in the morning, but they just won't let me do that anymore.

I feel the need to endanger myself every so often.

My public Facebook page is what it is. My Twitter account is sort of what it is, but if I'm totally honest with you, that is not my personal, private self. I have another Facebook page that is devoted to my dear friends and family, and they can keep in touch with me that way.

Twitter, just every once in a while I put something out there basically to promote whatever I'm doing, but I don't see any of that as representing me or who I am or being a brand.

I could have been a rich kid who stayed in college and got by on the path of least resistance, but I got much more out of being in the world and pulling my own weight.

I like bothering people and stirring things up.

I used to build lofts in SoHo back when there was nothing there. I had a stoop on West Broadway between Prince and Spring. My partner and I would sit there, eat dinner, and watch the world go by.