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" 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. "

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" I am a storyteller, and the stories I tell are, when I'm lucky, really good ones. It's a very exciting thing to do with your life, and that's, I think, what keeps me hopeful. "

" 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. "

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

" I was on the Harvard board of overseers for six years, between 1989 and 1995. "

" I'm an avid Boston Red Sox fan. "

" It's pretty rare that I see a film that I did a long, long time ago. "

" Look at the darkest hit musicals - Cabaret, West Side Story, Carousel - they are exuberant experiences. They send you out of the theater filled with music. "

" 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. "

" No villain thinks of himself as a villain, and that's the approach I always take. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" I keep looking for things I haven't done yet. "

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

" 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. "

" I have a lot of faith in people. "

" I loved growing up in Ohio. "

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

" One of the things you learn as an actor is that human beings are capable of almost anything. I'm sort of in the business of illustrating that fact. "

" Churchill faced his own diminishing capabilities and increasing irrelevance by maintaining the sense that he was the only one who could solve whatever problem was before him. He was very often wrong, of course, but then he had spent so much of his life overcoming appalling mistakes, disasters, and rejections. "

" Every time I see somebody behaving truly insanely in real life, I think, 'Yes! I'm not over the top after all!' "

" 'M. Butterfly' is usually the answer to the question, 'What has been your favorite experience?' The reason being, it is an astonishing play. "

" There's no more private family than the royal family. People who can really only be themselves with each other. The rest of us just spend all our time fascinated by them. "

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

" I consider myself a very lucky actor that, approaching 60, I'm still employed and employable. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I was in 20 Shakespearean plays by the time I was 20. "

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

" To my mum, I owe security in a very insecure young life. We lived in about 10 different places because of my father's chequered career, and she always made me feel a sense of consistency and security. I was a well-mothered boy. "