What's impressive about your acting on House is that you could so easily be the always-perturbed guy going, "Hou-ouse!" But you manage to make it understandable why these two would be friends.
I feel like that guy all the time. I always feel like, everyone on every television show is tired of something with their character. What I like about Law & Order is it's kind of the same every week. That's what TV is. Someone once explained to me the difference between a procedural show and a character-driven show: they were talking about Law & Order when Elizabeth Rohm was on. He said, ''I can explain to you what it is in one question: Do you care if Sam Waterston sleeps with Elizabeth Rohm?'' I said, ''No, not really.'' And he said, ''It's a procedural.'' And he was right. If Sam Waterston's character slept with Elizabeth Rohm's character, I honestly wouldn't want to know about it. I'm much more interested in getting back to the crime. I think House is a weird combination. That might be one of the reason it works on some level. I don't know any other show that's both. It really is both. It's not Grey's Anatomy, it's not a nighttime soap. It is a procedural. There is a sausage-grinder of a routine we go through every week. There are four acts, or three. Something's wrong, we get it wrong, we get it wrong, we get it wrong, and then at 9:47, we get it right. It's clearly a procedural show, but the characters are pretty interesting for a procedure. I'm the guy who's always telling him what he's doing wrong. I feel a little bit like the frustrated wife or something. But these two guys are very mysterious to me, their relationship is very weird. Maybe that's one of the reasons it works. I like Hugh a lot ,and I love what he does on the show. I feel quite peripheral to it sometimes, and that might be another reason it works. I just come in and check things out every few scenes.