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If you read in front of your kids, it's very likely that they'll become readers, too.
Will Ferrell is my new favorite person in the business. He's a completely adorable man.
When you end a successful sitcom, the most sensible thing to do is go back to the theater.
I'm a very hopeful person. I mean, I'm an optimistic person, sometimes stupidly optimistic.
I really prize and love great painting. It's so out of date now. It's slightly come back in.
I consider myself a very lucky actor that, approaching 60, I'm still employed and employable.
Money is just a low priority for me. I'm more interested in good work than a big bank account.
We all grow up with inherited genes and inherited sensibilities, and they run very, very deep.
I've said no to a lot of things I'd like to have done. My agent has never seen anything like it.
It's my theory that if you hear enough applause and laughter at a young enough age, you're doomed
I owe my whole career as a storyteller to my father. He was an actor/director/producer and teacher.
When people are taking something extremely seriously, that's the time to take out the pig's bladder.
I was married very young. I lived a very middle class life. I was married at age 21, divorced at 31.
I am such a coward when it comes to political arguments. I tend to sort of recoil rather than engage.
There is less difference than you would imagine entertaining little children and entertaining adults.
I'm probably a better granddad than dad because your role as a grandfather is to be fun, and I'm fun.
I look for every opportunity to mix comedy and horror and tragedy. I love catching audiences off-guard.
Next to the word 'luvvie' in the dictionary, there's a picture of me. At least in the American editions.
My hairline is receding. So my days as a romantic lead - even though I've never had them - are behind me.
Churchill is so particular. He's as different from the rest of the population of Britain as he is from me.
Up there with my awards, I have a great big statue of Groucho Marx, just to put everything in perspective.
I certainly had my years as an out of work actor but I was married with a baby. My wife was supporting us.
Britain has a great sense of its own national pride. It's like the monarchy is the embodiment of that pride.
Instead of being a theater actor who sometimes does movies I became a movie actor who sometimes does theater.
My wife is a professor at UCLA in Los Angeles, but otherwise, I'd be right back living on the Upper West Side.
Every time I see somebody behaving truly insanely in real life, I think, 'Yes! I'm not over the top after all!'
For me, working on stage is much more exhausting than all the other mediums, but it's also much more thrilling.
I look on myself as a sort of hybrid, having grown up in the world of Shakespeare out in the cornfields of Ohio.
You kill three people, they call you a murderer. You kill a million people, they call you a conqueror. Go figure.
Anyone who hears enough laughter and applause at a young age will become an actor, whether they intend to or not.
I actually was very proud of 'Dexter' and had a wonderful time doing it, which must make me an extremely weird person.
I'm a con artist in that I'm an actor. I make people believe something is real when they know perfectly well it isn't.
I like to rehearse and rehearse and have everything exactly calculated before we start shooting - probably to a fault.
In animation, there's this exhilarating moment of discovery when you see the film and you say, Oh THAT'S what I was doing.
An artist is always thinking of something else. My father was like that. He had this feeling of abstraction, and I do, too.
If you go through your life being completely truthful, everybody will hate you, and something I deeply fear is being hated.
My only regret is that we didn't have more kids. I came from a family of four kids, but my wife and I just started too late.
I find I have to walk a little faster in public these days, but it's very easy to remember when nobody had any idea who I was.
I'm as vain as the next person, but I've made so much fun of myself over the years, and that's very salutary as you grow older.
It's a very tough time for the playwright. Broadway has become almost a musical comedy theme park with all these long-running shows.
My very first role was when I was 2 1/2 years old; I was one of Nora's children in 'A Doll's House,' with my father playing Torvald.
It's very important to stay creative and not simply to wait around for people to want you. It's the hardest thing about the business.
I was married very young. I lived a very middle class life. I was married at age 21, divorced at 31. I didn't sleep on people's couches.
I'm very concerned for the future of the earth and its amazing creatures. We've got to be careful and make sure we don't foul our own nest
I'm very concerned for the future of the earth and its amazing creatures. We've got to be careful and make sure we don't foul our own nest.
'M. Butterfly' is usually the answer to the question, 'What has been your favorite experience?' The reason being, it is an astonishing play.
I went to Princeton High School, when I was very serious about being an artist. I was in a theatre family but I didn't want to become an actor.
I was very interested in being a painter. I had facility, I had talent, and I loved painting and printmaking, and I was quite serious about it.
When I was a teenager, I remember the extraordinary feeling of accomplishment for completing 'Vanity Fair.' I don't think it was even for school.
My wife tells me I always have to have a project. A 'projectophile' or something. It's true. I always feel like the grass is growing under my feet.