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

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

" In TV and movies, you get known for a certain thing, and that's what's expected. Onstage, people are more open to whatever character you create from one play to the next. "

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

" My wife tells me I always have to have a project. A 'projectophile' or something. It's true. I always feel like the grass is growing under my feet. "

" 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 grew up with this crazy upbringing of living many places and always being the new kid in town, not like a service brat where you're always going to school with other new kids in town. I was constantly arriving in small towns and going to school with kids who'd been together since they were in kindergarten. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I'd sleep under a Vermeer. "

" I'm a very slow and ponderous reader, but I'm dogged. "

" Everybody's a dreamer. "

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

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

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

" I consider myself a very lucky actor that, approaching 60, I'm still employed and employable. "

" Shakespeare is like mother's milk to me. "

" If you're an actor, you tend to fool yourself into thinking you're much younger than you are because you're playing parts and behaving like a child all the time. "

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

" It's wonderful to play a villain who gets a laugh or to stop a comedy dead in its tracks with a touching moment. It's kind of like a symphony that has very different movements. "

" 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. "

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

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

" If a film is about love, it tends to be about tortured love or discovering love or young love. It's not this wonderful kind of comfortable, old resilient love. "

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

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

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

" 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. "