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

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

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

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" 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.' "

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" 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'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. "

" I never get tired of hearing compliments. "

" 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. "

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

" An artist is always thinking of something else. My father was like that. He had this feeling of abstraction, and I do, too. "

" I don't deal with the nuts and bolts of life. "

" I do think - I always tell that to young people - go to college, do theater, work with an audience. Don't try to learn how to act in front of millions and millions of people. Don't make that your first ambition, to be on a sitcom or get into the movies. Learn who you are as an actor, and the best way to do that is to do it in front of an audience. "

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

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

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