One of the scary things is that, when you're a kid, you look at your dad as the man who has no fear. When you're an adult, you realize your father had fear, and that you have it, too.

In the final episode of the series he performed a parody of Sharon Stone's 'flashing' scene from Basic Instinct and a parody of "Dr. He had a recurring role as a transvestite DEA agent on the series Twin Peaks and played the narrator/host in the long-running Showtime erotica/softcore TV series Red Shoe Diaries. In 2000 he starred in the feature film Return to Me a romantic comedy/drama directed by Bonnie Hunt and co-starring Minnie Driver and Carroll O'Connor.

He is best known for playing Fox Mulder on The X-Files and Hank Moody on Californication both of which have earned him Golden Globe awards.