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

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" 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. "

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

" 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 keep looking for things I haven't done yet. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" What fascinated me most was Churchill as a young child. He had a kind of Dickensian childhood. The neglect. And he was a terrible student. His whole life is a study in trying to overcome your feelings of inadequacy. "

" I'd sleep under a Vermeer. "

" 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. "

" Good acting is really excellent carpentry. "

" When good things come along, you end up saying yes to them. Because they're rare. "

" When I was a teenager, I remember the extraordinary feeling of accomplishment for completing 'Vanity Fair.' I don't think it was even for school. "

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

" Comedy is very, very hard to achieve. "

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

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

" Other people have often had more faith in me than I had in myself - I never thought I could pull off Roberta Muldoon in 'The World According to Garp,' or 'Of Mice and Men's' Lennie as one of my first acting jobs. "

" I eat way too fast. "

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

" 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 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. "

" 'M. Butterfly' is usually the answer to the question, 'What has been your favorite experience?' The reason being, it is an astonishing play. "

" 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. "

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

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