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

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" If you read in front of your kids, it's very likely that they'll become readers, too. "

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

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" I went to - I got a wonderful college education. I went to Harvard. In those four years, I accumulated a lot of knowledge, but I also created a kind of habit of learning that has stayed with me my whole life. "

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

" I owe my whole career as a storyteller to my father. He was an actor/director/producer and teacher. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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 was married very young. I lived a very middle class life. I was married at age 21, divorced at 31. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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" I like to rehearse and rehearse and have everything exactly calculated before we start shooting - probably to a fault. "

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