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

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

" I look around, and 50 percent of the big-budget entertainment you are seeing these days is dystopian. This is the era of 'Hunger Games' and blasted landscapes and 'The Walking Dead.' "

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

" I'm a lazy actor, lazier than you would think. I don't usually do a lot of research. "

" 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 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I have a love/hate relationship with my height - I am 6 ft. 4 in. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" Grown adults often tell me that they used to sit, as children with their parents, and watch '3rd Rock from the Sun,' and they would all enjoy it for completely different reasons. I think that's part of the magic of the show. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" My hairline is receding. So my days as a romantic lead - even though I've never had them - are behind me. "

" I'm getting older, but better, too. And the roles are getting better. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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