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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. "

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" I look on myself as a sort of hybrid, having grown up in the world of Shakespeare out in the cornfields of Ohio. "

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" 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 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. "

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

" Take care, be kind, be considerate of other people and other species, and be loving. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" The Wodehouse language is so rich and detailed and hilarious. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" In 1995, I proposed the Harvard Arts Medal. The idea was to celebrate the fact that, although it's rare, Harvard men and women do go into the creative arts. Over the years we've had major, major figures, like Jack Lemmon, John Updike, Yo-Yo Ma, and Bonnie Raitt. "

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

" 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. "

" If it's well written and well directed and you've got good actors to work with, acting is easy. But making sure all the ducks are in a row is the hard part. It's very rare. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" My hairline is receding. So my days as a romantic lead - even though I've never had them - are behind me. "