I used to make fun of those actors who talked about the theater as their temple and their place of worship. I'm not to that degree of zealotry or idolatry of theater as this holy place. But it's a place where I get together with people who do what I do, and we understand each other in that respect.

Peter Scolari

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger. I really believe that.

Peter Scolari

really you stronger believe

The reality of getting married, it really changed things into something beautiful. There was transformation.

Peter Scolari

transformation beautiful reality

Never underestimate the value of someone who can say, 'You make me sick.'

Peter Scolari

value me you sick

I was offered some film roles, and I did not do them. It would have been interesting, but I have no regrets. I am where I am; I accept and embrace the mistakes because they're character-building and they build perspective and talent.

Peter Scolari

mistakes i-am talent perspective

It's more than sentimental for me to be working in theater in New York; it's very personal. I think it's a spiritual experience for me.

Peter Scolari

think me experience spiritual

We have to accept the world as it is, not as we'd have it to be.

Peter Scolari

accept world

Like any other all-American boy, I wanted to be just thought of as popular, be well-liked, and meet a lot of cute girls.

Peter Scolari

meet boy thought cute

About a year after 'Bosom Buddies,' I was suddenly a regular on 'Newhart,' and I was there almost seven years. And then, somewhere in the mid-1990s, I ended up doing a TV series version of 'Honey, I Shrunk the Kids.'

Peter Scolari

somewhere doing year honey

My mom and dad? Oh, they were a fiery pair. They stayed together for the kids and also because they were hopelessly in love with each other, but they were totally incompatible.

Peter Scolari

dad mom together love

In a drama, you don't make a fool of yourself.

Peter Scolari

yourself you fool drama

My mother sent me lithograph years ago at the height of my television success. It said, 'When your cup runneth over, watcheth out.' I never got over it. There's something so cosmic to be inferred in that. Not necessarily anything bad, and not necessarily anything good.

Peter Scolari

good me mother success

I made the varsity team as a freshman at 15. Then, I tore a tendon and never fully recovered. I was a shortstop, then third baseman, then second baseman.

Peter Scolari

then never team made

I probably make more money in a year on 'Newhart' than 70 percent of your working top-name stars. Some weeks I just have six lines, but it doesn't bother me.

Peter Scolari

your me money stars

My first wife tried to get back with me a year later, but there was no way. I used to think she was the be-all and end-all, but I got my stinky little pride back.

Peter Scolari

think me wife way

It's funny, because I was trained as a dramatic actor at New York's Colonnades Theater Lab in the '70s, along with Jeff Goldblum, Danny DeVito and Rhea Perlman. People I worked with there saw a comedian in me. I'm still most at home in comedy.

Peter Scolari

me home funny people

I love Columbus Circle. I rebelled against the construction for a while because I go back to the '70s. There was no Time Warner building. Now I've started to really like it.

Peter Scolari

construction building time love

What I love about the way folks have interacted with me over the years is that they just want to make eye contact and for me to say something nice.

Peter Scolari

me eye love way

There was a TV special every year called 'Circus of the Stars,' and I did three consecutive ones - one as a juggler, one as a high-wire performer, and one as a high hand balance.

Peter Scolari

balance three stars special

Emmys are gorgeous and fun, but with or without them, there is beautiful work out there.

Peter Scolari

gorgeous work fun beautiful

If we decline to become set in our ways, that's good. But it doesn't always feel good. It can be very challenging.

Peter Scolari

feel good always feel-good