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" I'm a very slow and ponderous reader, but I'm dogged. "

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" 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. "

" Up there with my awards, I have a great big statue of Groucho Marx, just to put everything in perspective. "

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

" I loved playing Roberta Muldoon! "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 like to rehearse and rehearse and have everything exactly calculated before we start shooting - probably to a fault. "

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

" The Wodehouse language is so rich and detailed and hilarious. "

" I eat way too fast. "

" Churchill is so particular. He's as different from the rest of the population of Britain as he is from me. "

" 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. "

" I find I have to walk a little faster in public these days, but it's very easy to remember when nobody had any idea who I was. "

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

" Growing up in an atmosphere of storytelling made me an actor. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Money is just a low priority for me. I'm more interested in good work than a big bank account. "

" 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. "

" I'd sleep under a Vermeer. "

" Good acting is really excellent carpentry. "

" If you're an actor, you tend to fool yourself into thinking you're much younger than you are because you're playing parts and behaving like a child all the time. "

" 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. "