I was going to be a concert pianist, and when I was in high school, my parents were scared to death that I would focus too much on that too soon. And that I'd end up in some sort of dead end, and not fulfilling whatever potential they thought I had.

Niles Crane on the hit NBC sitcom Frasier for which he won four Emmy Awards during the series' run. In a deliberate in-joke he voiced Cecil the brother of Kelsey Grammer-voiced Sideshow Bob in The Simpsons episode "Brother from Another Series" in which the two characters parallel the Frasier-Niles relationship. On May 28 2009 while a guest on The View he publicly announced his marriage to Hargrove and expressed his anger over the approval of Proposition 8.

Niles Crane on the hit NBC sitcom Frasier for which he won four Emmy Awards during the series' run. David Hyde Pierce (born April 3 1959) is an American actor and comedian.