On the stage you develop a character that's different from yourself. In a film they're always saying, 'Walk over here. Say this line. Be you.'

In a March 2009 interview on Anytime with Bob KuJon Cryerll Cryer stated that he had auditioned for St. Cryer was a well-known Methodist minister. Cryer's spokeswoman Karen Sanfilippohis stated: "Jon is not a Republican.

Cryer received a star on The Hollywood Walk of Fame for Television in 2011. In 1998 he wrote and produced the independent film Went to Coney Island on a Mission from God. He is the son of Gretchen and David Cryer.