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" My wife is a professor at UCLA in Los Angeles, but otherwise, I'd be right back living on the Upper West Side. "

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" Will Ferrell is my new favorite person in the business. He's a completely adorable man. "

" Comedy is very, very hard to achieve. "

" I never get tired of hearing compliments. "

" Academics tend to have wonderfully infantile senses of humor. "

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

" Oh, I'm dying to play Donald Trump someday, just because he's an unbelievable character. I'm a character actor; that's what you look for: outsized human beings. "

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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. "

" 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. "

" I don't deal with the nuts and bolts of life. "

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

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

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

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

" I went to Princeton High School when I was very serious about being an artist. "

" 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 loved playing Roberta Muldoon! "

" I have a lot of faith in people. "

" 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. "

" Look at the darkest hit musicals - Cabaret, West Side Story, Carousel - they are exuberant experiences. They send you out of the theater filled with music. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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