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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Britain has a great sense of its own national pride. It's like the monarchy is the embodiment of that pride. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I am such a coward when it comes to political arguments. I tend to sort of recoil rather than engage. "

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

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

" It's pretty rare that I see a film that I did a long, long time ago. "

" I eat way too fast. "

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

" I was in 20 Shakespearean plays by the time I was 20. "

" 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. "

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

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

" Good acting is really excellent carpentry. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Up there with my awards, I have a great big statue of Groucho Marx, just to put everything in perspective. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "