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" Good acting is really excellent carpentry. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" My hairline is receding. So my days as a romantic lead - even though I've never had them - are behind me. "

" The way I approach acting when there's a real life character, it's sort of like a Venn diagram. What I come up with is some amalgam of the two of us. "

" If I don't enjoy it, there's something seriously wrong. There's a reason why they call it playing, what we do. It's ecstatic fun, and I overdo it - I mean, I can't seem to stop - people ask me to act, and I say yes. "

" 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. "

" I have a lot of faith in people. "

" Actors are not necessarily smart people. "

" I am in the business of exploring crazy possibilities. "

" I look around, and 50 percent of the big-budget entertainment you are seeing these days is dystopian. This is the era of 'Hunger Games' and blasted landscapes and 'The Walking Dead.' "

" There is less difference than you would imagine entertaining little children and entertaining adults. "

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

" I've said no to a lot of things I'd like to have done. My agent has never seen anything like it. "

" We all have our secrets, and we all have our deceptions. Acting, at its best, is all about deceiving people, and this makes it all the more interesting to us. "

" I can't imagine doing an hour-long dramatic series because it's so much work. A sitcom is a wonderful gig. You work from 10 to 4 every day, it's fun, and you get to live at home. "

" Time sneaks up on you like a windshield on a bug. "

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

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

" I loved growing up in Ohio. "

" I never get tired of hearing compliments. "

" I'm a lazy actor, lazier than you would think. I don't usually do a lot of research. "

" Other people have often had more faith in me than I had in myself - I never thought I could pull off Roberta Muldoon in 'The World According to Garp,' or 'Of Mice and Men's' Lennie as one of my first acting jobs. "

" It's wonderful to play a villain who gets a laugh or to stop a comedy dead in its tracks with a touching moment. It's kind of like a symphony that has very different movements. "

" Next to the word 'luvvie' in the dictionary, there's a picture of me. At least in the American editions. "

" 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. "

" Growing up in an atmosphere of storytelling made me an actor. "

" I actually was very proud of 'Dexter' and had a wonderful time doing it, which must make me an extremely weird person. "

" In TV and movies, you get known for a certain thing, and that's what's expected. Onstage, people are more open to whatever character you create from one play to the next. "

" 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. "