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

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

" It's a very tough time for the playwright. Broadway has become almost a musical comedy theme park with all these long-running shows. "

" Churchill faced his own diminishing capabilities and increasing irrelevance by maintaining the sense that he was the only one who could solve whatever problem was before him. He was very often wrong, of course, but then he had spent so much of his life overcoming appalling mistakes, disasters, and rejections. "

" 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. "

" Other people have often had more faith in me than I had in myself - I never thought I could pull off Roberta Muldoon in 'The World According to Garp,' or 'Of Mice and Men's' Lennie as one of my first acting jobs. "

" I'm a fun father, but not a good father. The hard decisions always went to my wife. "

" I went to - I got a wonderful college education. I went to Harvard. In those four years, I accumulated a lot of knowledge, but I also created a kind of habit of learning that has stayed with me my whole life. "

" 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. "

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

" I'm probably a better granddad than dad because your role as a grandfather is to be fun, and I'm fun. "

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

" I eat way too fast. "

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

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

" If you read in front of your kids, it's very likely that they'll become readers, too. "

" In TV and movies, you get known for a certain thing, and that's what's expected. Onstage, people are more open to whatever character you create from one play to the next. "

" Time sneaks up on you like a windshield on a bug. "

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

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

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

" There is less difference than you would imagine entertaining little children and entertaining adults. "

" My wife tells me I always have to have a project. A 'projectophile' or something. It's true. I always feel like the grass is growing under my feet. "

" 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. "

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

" Anytime a culture is in economic stress, ugly things start happening. "

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

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

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

" Comedy is very, very hard to achieve. "