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" As an actor and a fledgling director, I'm used to making snap decisions that I'll have to live with. "

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" The first private space of my own wasn't a dorm room; it was a hotel room in Tulsa, Oklahoma. "

" I have had a lot of blessed, interesting things happen to me and have bumped up against some amazing people. "

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" What's gratifying about West Wing is that everybody told us that it couldn't be done - that the man or woman on the street didn't care about politics. But if you set things up correctly, people don't have a problem with it. "

" I look at it like this: that if Shakespeare were alive today, he would have written two or three plays about the Kennedy family, and actors would traditionally play JFK like they Hamlet or King Lear. They just would. I mean, people have played JFK, and they'll play him long after I have. "

" I always wanted that house where everybody wants to go, full of energy, dogs, music, fun. "

" Being in a successful marriage is no different than being cast in a successful movie. It's all about who you pick; in that first moment, did you pick the right person? I think you need to pick somebody who's more interested in being married than in getting married. "

" I love London. "

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" I like the tradition of ordinary men in extraordinary circumstances and how they react to events which force them to be heroic in a way that is not in their natures. "

" I've been around for so long, people have their perceptions of me: good, bad or indifferent. "

" My parents did divorce, but my dad has always been present for me and loving me and my mom as well when she was alive. "

" My issue isn't about physical aging; my issue is about wanting to remain vigorous and youthful in my spirit. "

" My roles in comedies from 'Austin Powers' to 'Tommy Boy' to 'Wayne's World,' were sort of comedic 'straight man' parts. My character on 'Parks & Recreation' is the comic relief in a comedy. To play a character that appears strictly for laughs is sort of new for me and really fun. "

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" I sadly never got to my prom. I was shooting 'The Outsiders.' "

" I've never met a funny person who wasn't smart. I've met a lot of dramatic people who were stupid. But I've never met a funny person who wasn't smart. "

" I'll never forget one of those things that my father said to me. My father said: 'You know what? We have had so many amazingly positive experiences that we would have never had because you're famous. We can stand to have a couple negatives ones, too.' "

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" To go from playing Jack Startz in 'Behind the Candelabra' to playing JFK in the same year, I have now operated at the far ends of my range as an actor. "

" The '90s were a time of building for me. Building a life that was sober, drained of harmful, wasteful excess and manufacturing in its place a family of my own. "

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" I have a friend who is very successful in business, and his motto is, 'Don't do what you can do. Do what only you can do.' First of all, you have to know what your specific, unique gift is and then you do that... every actor does that but every once in a while an actor plays a part that only they can play. "