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

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

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

" When I was a teenager, I remember the extraordinary feeling of accomplishment for completing 'Vanity Fair.' I don't think it was even for school. "

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

" I went to Princeton High School when I was very serious about being an artist. "

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

" I got to have a great big knock-down, drag-out fight with Sylvester Stallone. Every actor should have that much fun at some point. You can hit him as hard as you can, and it's never enough for him. "

" I'm a con artist in that I'm an actor. I make people believe something is real when they know perfectly well it isn't. "

" I'd sleep under a Vermeer. "

" 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. "

" My hairline is receding. So my days as a romantic lead - even though I've never had them - are behind me. "

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

" 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. "

" Everybody's a dreamer. "

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

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

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

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

" Comedy is very, very hard to achieve. "

" 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. "

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

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" 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. "