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

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

" I loved playing Roberta Muldoon! "

" 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. "

" What you aspire to on a sitcom is the feeling of live comedy. "

" 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 am such a coward when it comes to political arguments. I tend to sort of recoil rather than engage. "

" 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. "

" 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 have a lot of faith in people. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I'm very concerned for the future of the earth and its amazing creatures. We've got to be careful and make sure we don't foul our own nest. "

" 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 owe my whole career as a storyteller to my father. He was an actor/director/producer and teacher. "

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

" If I don't enjoy it, there's something seriously wrong. There's a reason why they call it playing, what we do. It's ecstatic fun, and I overdo it - I mean, I can't seem to stop - people ask me to act, and I say yes. "

" When good things come along, you end up saying yes to them. Because they're rare. "

" For me, working on stage is much more exhausting than all the other mediums, but it's also much more thrilling. "

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

" I'm too much of a Libra. I too often see the other person's point of view and capitulate, even though I have strong political convictions. It's just my liability. Maybe I'm too empathetic. That's the actor in me. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" My eagerness to please sometimes gets the better of me. "

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

" I never get tired of hearing compliments. "

" 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. "

" 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. "