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

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

" Comedy is very, very hard to achieve. "

" I am a storyteller, and the stories I tell are, when I'm lucky, really good ones. It's a very exciting thing to do with your life, and that's, I think, what keeps me hopeful. "

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

" Churchill faced his own diminishing capabilities and increasing irrelevance by maintaining the sense that he was the only one who could solve whatever problem was before him. He was very often wrong, of course, but then he had spent so much of his life overcoming appalling mistakes, disasters, and rejections. "

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

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

" There's no more private family than the royal family. People who can really only be themselves with each other. The rest of us just spend all our time fascinated by them. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" We're in the business of using real emotions to bring pretend emotions to life. "

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

" Churchill is so particular. He's as different from the rest of the population of Britain as he is from me. "

" Good acting is really excellent carpentry. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" As an actor ages north of 60, he tends to be in more father roles than anything else. It's generational. And it tends to be a relationship that fascinates people, the flawed relationships between parents and kids. "

" 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. "

" It's a very tough time for the playwright. Broadway has become almost a musical comedy theme park with all these long-running shows. "

" 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. "

" I auditioned for soap operas and commercials; I remember auditioning for Lays potato chips. It was a sort of 'Mutiny on the Bounty' sketch, where Captain Bligh was torturing the crew by saying, 'You can only have one Lays potato chip,' and they all rise up. "

" It's very important to stay creative and not simply to wait around for people to want you. It's the hardest thing about the business. "