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" 'M. Butterfly' is usually the answer to the question, 'What has been your favorite experience?' The reason being, it is an astonishing play. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" Comedy is very, very hard to achieve. "

" Everybody's a dreamer. "

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

" My very first role was when I was 2 1/2 years old; I was one of Nora's children in 'A Doll's House,' with my father playing Torvald. "

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

" What fascinated me most was Churchill as a young child. He had a kind of Dickensian childhood. The neglect. And he was a terrible student. His whole life is a study in trying to overcome your feelings of inadequacy. "

" 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 gave up shame a long time ago. "

" I have a lot of faith in people. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 loved playing Roberta Muldoon! "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" The way I approach acting when there's a real life character, it's sort of like a Venn diagram. What I come up with is some amalgam of the two of us. "

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

" I tell young people, including my own kids, don't do this, it's too difficult. It's a career full of rejection, disappointment and failure. It's murderously hard on the ego. Don't become an actor. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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