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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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" Will Ferrell is my new favorite person in the business. He's a completely adorable man. "

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" 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. "

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" Churchill is so particular. He's as different from the rest of the population of Britain as he is from me. "

" 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. "

" You don't see many films about a long, long relationship. "

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

" I'm too much of a Libra. I too often see the other person's point of view and capitulate, even though I have strong political convictions. It's just my liability. Maybe I'm too empathetic. That's the actor in me. "

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" I loved growing up in Ohio. "

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

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

" My sense of myself is that I'm a character actor, and character actors are ready, willing, and able to do anything, to be totally different from themselves. That's my job, to be ready. I'm some kind of first responder. "

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

" I eat way too fast. "

" As an actor ages north of 60, he tends to be in more father roles than anything else. It's generational. And it tends to be a relationship that fascinates people, the flawed relationships between parents and kids. "

" The first long chapter of my career was almost entirely theater so that, by the time I was 30, 35, I sort of knew who I was as an actor, and I was gradually learning who I was as a human being. "

" 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. "

" I have a love/hate relationship with my height - I am 6 ft. 4 in. "

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" Anytime a culture is in economic stress, ugly things start happening. "

" People have expectations from you - and the whole fun of acting is taking expectations and completely upending them. That's how you get laughs in comedy, and that's how you scare the daylights out of people in a horror film. "

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

" My worst audition was for Tim Burton for 'Batman.' "

" 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. "

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

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

" In animation, there's this exhilarating moment of discovery when you see the film and you say, Oh THAT'S what I was doing. "

" If a film is about love, it tends to be about tortured love or discovering love or young love. It's not this wonderful kind of comfortable, old resilient love. "