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

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" One of the things you learn as an actor is that human beings are capable of almost anything. I'm sort of in the business of illustrating that fact. "

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

" Whenever I play a role, it's like I've been kidnapped inside my own body. "

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

" If a film is about love, it tends to be about tortured love or discovering love or young love. It's not this wonderful kind of comfortable, old resilient love. "

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

" Actors are not necessarily smart people. "

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

" I loved playing Roberta Muldoon! "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" It's a delightful thing to do, to entertain kids. They're a completely different audience because of their total lack of irony. You're always after a total suspension of disbelief, but the only people you can really achieve it with is children. "

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

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

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

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

" I can't imagine doing an hour-long dramatic series because it's so much work. A sitcom is a wonderful gig. You work from 10 to 4 every day, it's fun, and you get to live at home. "

" 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. "

" It's very important to stay creative and not simply to wait around for people to want you. It's the hardest thing about the business. "

" We moved around a lot when I was growing up. I was always the new kid in class, but I was good at making friends. With an upbringing like that, I was either going to become an actor or a politician. Thank God I became an actor! I'm not cut out for politics. "

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

" 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. "

" Comedy is very, very hard to achieve. "

" The theater is my power center, and I love doing it in New York. "

" I grew up with this crazy upbringing of living many places and always being the new kid in town, not like a service brat where you're always going to school with other new kids in town. I was constantly arriving in small towns and going to school with kids who'd been together since they were in kindergarten. "