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" 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. "

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" I work very hard on motivating everything I do as an actor. Explosive moments have to be completely motivated; whether they're explosive comedy or explosive horror, they have to come organically out of a scene and an interaction with another actor. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" My eagerness to please sometimes gets the better of me. "

" 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 look on myself as a sort of hybrid, having grown up in the world of Shakespeare out in the cornfields of Ohio. "

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

" 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. "

" For me, working on stage is much more exhausting than all the other mediums, but it's also much more thrilling. "

" Voice work is fun. But about three-quarters of the things you enjoy about acting are just not there. You're not working with another actor; you're not working with an audience. You're just working with a bunch of writers and a microphone. It's very abstract. "

" 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 never get tired of hearing compliments. "

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

" 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. "

" An artist is always thinking of something else. My father was like that. He had this feeling of abstraction, and I do, too. "

" Anytime a culture is in economic stress, ugly things start happening. "

" My sense of myself is that I'm a character actor, and character actors are ready, willing, and able to do anything, to be totally different from themselves. That's my job, to be ready. I'm some kind of first responder. "

" I gave up shame a long time ago. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" I'm an avid Boston Red Sox fan. "

" I was on the Harvard board of overseers for six years, between 1989 and 1995. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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