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" I like to rehearse and rehearse and have everything exactly calculated before we start shooting - probably to a fault. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" The essence of comedy, drama, and horror is surprise. I have an uncanny ability to surprise people because they look at my face, and they don't know where I'm going. "

" 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. "

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

" I'm getting older, but better, too. And the roles are getting better. "

" Comedy is very, very hard to achieve. "

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

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

" I owe my whole career as a storyteller to my father. He was an actor/director/producer and teacher. "

" 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. "

" I do all the cooking in the family. I cook Italian, mostly, pastas and roasts, and bit by bit, I'm learning how to bake. I think cooking is a gift to other people. "

" 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. "

" Britain has a great sense of its own national pride. It's like the monarchy is the embodiment of that pride. "

" 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. "

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

" If you're an actor, you tend to fool yourself into thinking you're much younger than you are because you're playing parts and behaving like a child all the time. "

" It's not always easy to be proud of your government. "

" 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. "

" For me, working on stage is much more exhausting than all the other mediums, but it's also much more thrilling. "

" 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 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. "

" Good acting is really excellent carpentry. "

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

" 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. "