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And I took a moment, and I said, “No, because there’s so many people
dependent on our work for their living or their livelihood. You do
something whether it works or whether it doesn’t. Once you’re
committed and you do it, it becomes a part of your life. I wouldn’t be
sorry about it. I’d learn from it.” So I felt that I was able to
impart at least a little bit of wisdom to him.

I mentioned that I’m friendly with Casey, but I’d never really talked
with Ben, so I decided to go to a gathering recently that George
Clooney was having, a party for the cast of Argo. When I told Ben that
I was there because I wanted to say hello and let him know how
impressed I am with his craft, I think he was pleased, but then he
asked me a question, which I thought was really great. He said, “Have
you ever done anything in all of this that you were sorry you did?”

(2013, on landing Friends) They’d done a pilot, they’d been picked up
by NBC, and I knew they were going to be on around Mad About You and
Seinfeld, but they were not yet in production. They sent me a script,
and… there wasn’t much in it, but they wanted me to play the father
of David Schwimmer and Courteney Cox. I didn’t know if I’d do it.
There wasn’t much money in it for me, so I didn’t think I would do it,
and my agents didn’t want me to do it at the time, either. But then I
saw on the script that it was to be directed by Jim Burrows. I’d
worked for Jim’s father, Abe, who directed Say, Darling, where I was
third assistant stage manager and I was a chorus boy, just a little
part. But that was one reason why I wanted to work with Jim Burrows.
That, and to see how he did it, because he was so successful. So I
wound up doing it, and we got along great. And all the Friends were
very nice to me, too.