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

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

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" 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. "

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

" In animation, there's this exhilarating moment of discovery when you see the film and you say, Oh THAT'S what I was doing. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I loved playing Roberta Muldoon! "

" When I was 13 years old, I went to visit my aunt and uncle in Washington, D.C., and they just deposited me at the National Gallery. I would go from Rembrandt to Picasso - I remember that experience so vividly. "

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

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

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

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

" 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 am a storyteller, and the stories I tell are, when I'm lucky, really good ones. It's a very exciting thing to do with your life, and that's, I think, what keeps me hopeful. "

" 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. "

" I have a love/hate relationship with my height - I am 6 ft. 4 in. "

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

" I was married very young. I lived a very middle class life. I was married at age 21, divorced at 31. "

" 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. "

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" To my mum, I owe security in a very insecure young life. We lived in about 10 different places because of my father's chequered career, and she always made me feel a sense of consistency and security. I was a well-mothered boy. "

" My sense of myself is that I'm a character actor, and character actors are ready, willing, and able to do anything, to be totally different from themselves. That's my job, to be ready. I'm some kind of first responder. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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