Brad Garrett

Brad Garrett: (about "Everybody Loves Raymond") The writers have just written really great scripts that revolve around believable, dysfunctional family dynamics. I think it helps if you're identifiable, you know? I mean, that's what people tell me, more than anything else, on the street, that I remind them, usually, of their aunt.....which kind of scares me. I mean, is that right?

Brad: (after the death of Peter Boyle, who played his on-screen father in "Everybody Loves Raymond") I think of Peter and I smile. I laugh and I think about what I learned from him as an actor and a human being. He was a compassionate man and a great dad.

Brad: (asked if he was tempted to do a spin-off of "Raymond", instead of "'Till Death") You say to yourself, "How could I spin off the number one comedy on television?" But it was definitely something being considered. But as an actor, you want to do something new, so this was very exciting, too. I was open to both ideas but, for the spin-off to happen, there were some creative choices that really had to come to pass for it to make sense, and we couldn't get the writers from Raymond. And while we kept going back and forth on those kind of details, this script was sent to me and that was that.