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" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

" Everybody's a dreamer. "

" One of the problems in our lives is that people from different segments of our society just don't communicate with each other, nor do you ever see entertainment where they communicate with each other and fight with each other. "

" 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. "

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

" I loved growing up in Ohio. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Powerful people are always in charge. You have to acknowledge that and deal with it as a reality. They're not devils. They're not monsters. They're human beings, like us, that have their share of insecurities and fears. You have to contemplate that as you go through life. "

" I actually was very proud of 'Dexter' and had a wonderful time doing it, which must make me an extremely weird person. "

" I really prize and love great painting. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I eat way too fast. "