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

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" 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. "

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

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

" I got to have a great big knock-down, drag-out fight with Sylvester Stallone. Every actor should have that much fun at some point. You can hit him as hard as you can, and it's never enough for him. "

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

" 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 was on the Harvard board of overseers for six years, between 1989 and 1995. "

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

" 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. "

" Time sneaks up on you like a windshield on a bug. "

" 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. "

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

" There's nothing like spending an evening with an audience every night. "

" 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. "

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

" I never get tired of hearing compliments. "

" You don't see many films about a long, long relationship. "

" I have a lot of faith in people. "

" Whenever I play a role, it's like I've been kidnapped inside my own body. "

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

" Britain is probably the most sophisticated combination of a monarchy and a democracy. "

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

" When you end a successful sitcom, the most sensible thing to do is go back to the theater. "

" When people are taking something extremely seriously, that's the time to take out the pig's bladder. "

" I'd sleep under a Vermeer. "

" Everybody's a dreamer. "

" 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. "

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