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" Academics tend to have wonderfully infantile senses of humor. "

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" I grew up with this crazy upbringing of living many places and always being the new kid in town, not like a service brat where you're always going to school with other new kids in town. I was constantly arriving in small towns and going to school with kids who'd been together since they were in kindergarten. "

" I'm a very slow and ponderous reader, but I'm dogged. "

" Powerful people are always in charge. You have to acknowledge that and deal with it as a reality. They're not devils. They're not monsters. They're human beings, like us, that have their share of insecurities and fears. You have to contemplate that as you go through life. "

" Comedy is very, very hard to achieve. "

" 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'm a fun father, but not a good father. The hard decisions always went to my wife. "

" One of the problems in our lives is that people from different segments of our society just don't communicate with each other, nor do you ever see entertainment where they communicate with each other and fight with each other. "

" Britain is probably the most sophisticated combination of a monarchy and a democracy. "

" When you end a successful sitcom, the most sensible thing to do is go back to the theater. "

" When people are taking something extremely seriously, that's the time to take out the pig's bladder. "

" When I was 13 years old, I went to visit my aunt and uncle in Washington, D.C., and they just deposited me at the National Gallery. I would go from Rembrandt to Picasso - I remember that experience so vividly. "

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" I was in 20 Shakespearean plays by the time I was 20. "

" I went to - I got a wonderful college education. I went to Harvard. In those four years, I accumulated a lot of knowledge, but I also created a kind of habit of learning that has stayed with me my whole life. "

" I went to Princeton High School when I was very serious about being an artist. "

" The zombie is the new, sort of, archetype of our times. "

" It's pretty rare that I see a film that I did a long, long time ago. "

" What fascinated me most was Churchill as a young child. He had a kind of Dickensian childhood. The neglect. And he was a terrible student. His whole life is a study in trying to overcome your feelings of inadequacy. "

" We're in the business of using real emotions to bring pretend emotions to life. "

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" I'm a very hopeful person. I mean, I'm an optimistic person, sometimes stupidly optimistic. "

" I tell young people, including my own kids, don't do this, it's too difficult. It's a career full of rejection, disappointment and failure. It's murderously hard on the ego. Don't become an actor. "

" The theater is my power center, and I love doing it in New York. "

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" I look on myself as a sort of hybrid, having grown up in the world of Shakespeare out in the cornfields of Ohio. "

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" Up there with my awards, I have a great big statue of Groucho Marx, just to put everything in perspective. "