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On filming for the show "Brooklyn South":

I was never comfortable. Never relaxed. No one can do good work if they’re not relaxed.

On playing Tim Whatley in Seinfeld

An electrician was adjusting a light, and he called down, “Hey, you know what would be funny?”
I was a bit confused. Was he talking to me? “What?” I asked.
“It would be funny if before you put the laughing gas mask on Jerry, you took a hit off it yourself.”
I thought about it and realized he was right.

I so clearly remember hearing these comments reworked and recited back to me as admonishments whenever my parents disapproved of my behavior. If I were a kid today, I'd probably be diagnosed with mild ADHD. Back then, the only descriptor for my condition was: Bryan needs to pay more attention.

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I got adequate grades, but the teacher comment section of my report card was always filled with ominous statements: Bryan needs to apply himself. Bryan is often goofing around and disruptive. Bryan spends too much time daydreaming.

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Even after the Dodgers moved to their permanent home at Chavez Ravine in 1962, and even after things at my house started to fall apart, I knew I could depend on the smell of fresh-cut grass, Vin Scully's dulcet voice calling the game on the radio, and the clean symmetry of the baseball diamond. The sense of hope you could dare to have with runners at the corners and no outs.