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" I really prize and love great painting. "

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

" I work very hard on motivating everything I do as an actor. Explosive moments have to be completely motivated; whether they're explosive comedy or explosive horror, they have to come organically out of a scene and an interaction with another actor. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Take care, be kind, be considerate of other people and other species, and be loving. "

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

" Voice work is fun. But about three-quarters of the things you enjoy about acting are just not there. You're not working with another actor; you're not working with an audience. You're just working with a bunch of writers and a microphone. It's very abstract. "

" If it's well written and well directed and you've got good actors to work with, acting is easy. But making sure all the ducks are in a row is the hard part. It's very rare. "

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

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

" We moved around a lot when I was growing up. I was always the new kid in class, but I was good at making friends. With an upbringing like that, I was either going to become an actor or a politician. Thank God I became an actor! I'm not cut out for politics. "

" I'm as vain as the next person, but I've made so much fun of myself over the years, and that's very salutary as you grow older. "

" The Broadway audience is made up of a greater percentage of tourists now. There's not nearly as much variety and danger and challenge in what's being offered. "

" 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. "

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

" I auditioned for soap operas and commercials; I remember auditioning for Lays potato chips. It was a sort of 'Mutiny on the Bounty' sketch, where Captain Bligh was torturing the crew by saying, 'You can only have one Lays potato chip,' and they all rise up. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" Whenever I play a role, it's like I've been kidnapped inside my own body. "

" There's nothing like spending an evening with an audience every night. "

" I'm a very hopeful person. I mean, I'm an optimistic person, sometimes stupidly optimistic. "

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

" I was married very young. I lived a very middle class life. I was married at age 21, divorced at 31. "