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" Actors are not necessarily smart people. "

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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" The Broadway audience is made up of a greater percentage of tourists now. There's not nearly as much variety and danger and challenge in what's being offered. "

" Shakespeare is like mother's milk to me. "

" My eagerness to please sometimes gets the better of me. "

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

" 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 am in the business of exploring crazy possibilities. "

" I love New York. I lived there all through the '70s and have lived in L.A. since the early '80s but come back all the time to do theater. "

" 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. "

" What you aspire to on a sitcom is the feeling of live comedy. "

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" Comedy is very, very hard to achieve. "

" If you go through your life being completely truthful, everybody will hate you, and something I deeply fear is being hated. "

" My wife is a professor at UCLA in Los Angeles, but otherwise, I'd be right back living on the Upper West Side. "

" It's a delightful thing to do, to entertain kids. They're a completely different audience because of their total lack of irony. You're always after a total suspension of disbelief, but the only people you can really achieve it with is children. "

" We all grow up with inherited genes and inherited sensibilities, and they run very, very deep. "

" 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. "

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" Churchill faced his own diminishing capabilities and increasing irrelevance by maintaining the sense that he was the only one who could solve whatever problem was before him. He was very often wrong, of course, but then he had spent so much of his life overcoming appalling mistakes, disasters, and rejections. "

" I consider myself a very lucky actor that, approaching 60, I'm still employed and employable. "

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

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

" I won two Golden Globes, and there was a long, long period in between the wins. That might be explained by the fact that when I first won the award, for '3rd Rock on the Sun,' I satirically compared aliens on the show to the Foreign Press Association. And they did not take that well. "