We can't control what the ratings will be. It's like, if you're going to go skiing, do you hope you'll have a good day of skiing? Yes. Do you hope you won't break your leg? Yes.

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.