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

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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. "

" 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. "

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

" I'd sleep under a Vermeer. "

" I'm getting older, but better, too. And the roles are getting better. "

" I love New York. I lived there all through the '70s and have lived in L.A. since the early '80s but come back all the time to do theater. "

" I find I have to walk a little faster in public these days, but it's very easy to remember when nobody had any idea who I was. "

" Every time I see somebody behaving truly insanely in real life, I think, 'Yes! I'm not over the top after all!' "

" I look around, and 50 percent of the big-budget entertainment you are seeing these days is dystopian. This is the era of 'Hunger Games' and blasted landscapes and 'The Walking Dead.' "

" 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. "

" 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'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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I loved playing Roberta Muldoon! "

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

" 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. "

" The first long chapter of my career was almost entirely theater so that, by the time I was 30, 35, I sort of knew who I was as an actor, and I was gradually learning who I was as a human being. "

" It's a delightful thing to do, to entertain kids. They're a completely different audience because of their total lack of irony. You're always after a total suspension of disbelief, but the only people you can really achieve it with is children. "

" The zombie is the new, sort of, archetype of our times. "

" 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. "

" I loved growing up in Ohio. "

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

" I'm a very hopeful person. I mean, I'm an optimistic person, sometimes stupidly optimistic. "

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