'The Big Bang Theory' has completely changed my life.

Well, I'm a big believer in 'never say never.'

What this is about is hopefully an opportunity for me to help pave the way for my future in terms of getting financially choosier. You have to plan the windfall as if it’ll be your only one.

There’s no audience to wonderfully get in your way when you’re doing a single-camera anything, whether it’s a sitcom or drama or film. And I do mean that in the best way.

I’ve always loved TV very much, and as a child I was so religious with it, but now it’s more when it fits in.

I don’t think the jet-setting life is really for most people.

I’m also a big ‘American Idol’ fan. I think it’s just great fun.

Every time I think about writing, comedy doesn’t interest me in the slightest. I can play comedy, but I don’t think in terms of comic dialogue.

Playing Sheldon is just heaven for me. I realize how enormously lucky I am to play a role that makes me so incredibly happy. As I told Chuck Lorre in a Christmas card a few years ago, I’m living a version of the dream.

My choices in projects have all been character or role-based, and on a financial level, it’s obvious: as an actor on a TV series, I get a wonderful paycheck, and a consistent paycheck, which doesn’t always happen when you’re doing theater or movies.