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" I liked being a teenager, but I would not go back for all the tea in China. "

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" Feng shui isn't open to interpretation. "

" We always reminisce about how everyone tried to get Diane Lane's attention, to very little success. "

" I love London. "

" I have a lot of great memories, but I can't imagine anything more exciting than the life I have now. "

" For me, the battle is finding the balance between wanting to spend time with my boys and then having enough perspective to still be the disciplinarian and, like, not be in the best friend business. "

" I was a child of the '80s. "

" I believe in ceremony. I think ceremony is important, pomp and circumstance, tradition. I'm into those things. "

" I would've loved Jack Kennedy. I would've loved to have campaigned for him and supported him. I wish there were more like him today. "

" I've been lucky enough in 'The West Wing' and 'Brothers & Sisters' to talk about the issues that are important to me with none of the awful mud-slinging or public scrutiny you have in politics. "

" 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. "

" I only pray when it suits my own needs. I'm not proud about that. "

" It's funny what actors take issue with. Some won't do parts where animals are in jeopardy; some won't ever play anyone remotely unlikable - 'Heroes only, please.' Some won't do violence. I have no such qualms. "

" When I hear that I realize how quickly time passes and how everybody goes on their journeys and they're always unbelievable and they never go where you think they're going to take you and, quite frankly, it also makes me feel a little old. "

" I was smart and married somebody who could do for me what I couldn't do for myself. "

" I had met my now wife, Sheryl, and was attempting my first try at monogamy, which was not really in my nature at the time, and I wasn't able to do it. "

" The minute you start making calculations about what people will think of you as a person based on your work as an actor, you're on the road to becoming a bad one. "

" 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. "

" My deep dark secret is that I was a nerd in school. I liked the theater. I liked to study. I wasn't very good at sports. "

" I love anything by Joan Didion. Incidentally, she was one of the local moms when I was growing up in Point Dume. She always reminded me a little bit of my mother, so I feel a great affinity. I love the precision of Didion's writing. There's a construction and a craftsmanship to her sentences that's imbued with so much emotion. "

" The first shooter video game stuff which - look, admittedly, I missed that generationally, so it's not a thing for me. I've never played them. I don't really get it. My kids do. "

" In my bachelor days, the priority wasn't learning to cook. "

" I never get bored talking about themes dealing with ambition, leadership and what it means to be an American. I love that stuff. I just love it. I've loved it ever since I was on 'The West Wing.' "

" I've had years of psychiatry, and I ask about every six months - it's sort of like getting your oil checked - I ask, 'I'm not an actual narcissist, am I?' The learned men of psychiatry assure me that I meet none of the medical criteria. "

" In comedy you have to be willing to not take yourself seriously, you know? I take comedy really seriously, and so to take comedy seriously, you must not, you cannot, ever take yourself seriously. "

" There's this unbelievable bias and prejudice against quote-unquote good-looking people, that they can't be in pain or they can't have rough lives or be deep or interesting. "

" I don't think the Internet should be immune to the standing laws of countries. "

" Show me someone who doesn't have some sort of experience that they would be uncomfortable for people to know about and I'll show you a dullard. "

" Oh my God, I love rehab! I highly recommend it. "

" 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. "