James Denton

“And of course Marc Cherry heightens it and makes it hilarious. But there's so many universal themes in the show, and he made it so funny. We knew he was onto something if he could keep it up and, thankfully, he did.”

“James was my given name, but I was a junior; so I was Jamie as a kid.”

“They're pretty particular about what they show. They certainly edit the scripts and have conversations with the writers about what they are and aren't willing to portray. But the writers and the network are pretty much on the same page.”

“I love David Caruso. I know it's not cool, but I do. I watch CSI: Miami. I think he's interesting.”

“I've been on a lot of shows that nobody cared about.”

“It's still about the women. It's not called Desperate Plumber. People are more interested in cat fights.”

“I was born and raised in the South, which is pretty conservative.”

“I think it helps a lot when they tell people that Teri Hatcher likes you. If you're Teri Hatcher's boyfriend, suddenly you're hunky I guess. I've spent 40 years being average and now I'm Teri hatcher's boyfriend and here we are. I've been really fortunate.”

“My last real job was selling air time for CBS affiliates. I quit that when I was 28, and that was the last real job I had. I beat the system. I've been able to do this full-time for almost 15 years.”

“The biggest surprise about our marriage is that Erin was out there.”

“I'm not a hard-line Republican, because I'm a lot more open-minded than that.”

“We've all been around love enough to know how lucky we are. I've never seen anybody have a cross word on the set, and I'm there a lot. All the women just got brand-new trailers, so they're happy.”

“I think theatre helped, only because it was acting experience. I got to work with a lot of directors.”

“My parents were amazing people who had no business being together - and they knew it.”

“I never had any classes or went to theatre school like a lot of actors, so all of my training has been on stage with different directors. That was a pretty good school room.”

“This is my third ABC show over the last four years, so we were afraid that nobody would find it. ABC was really struggling and so we just weren't very confident that it would find an audience.”

“I'm off at least three or four days a week, so it's a perfect job, really.”

“It was described as Sex and the Suburbs. It's so not that. Because on Sex and the City, those women told each other everything; on our show, it's much more like the real suburbs - nobody tells anybody anything. Everything's a secret.”

“Real acting is realistic no matter what the medium.”

“Last year, I was on Threat Matrix. We were on Thursday against Friends and Survivor; so this year it's fun to know people are watching, and to know that all of your hard work is not sort of wasted.”