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" You don't see many films about a long, long relationship. "

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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. "

" 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. "

" Growing up in an atmosphere of storytelling made me an actor. "

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

" Look at the darkest hit musicals - Cabaret, West Side Story, Carousel - they are exuberant experiences. They send you out of the theater filled with music. "

" 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. "

" I'm probably a better granddad than dad because your role as a grandfather is to be fun, and I'm fun. "

" I never get tired of hearing compliments. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" What fascinated me most was Churchill as a young child. He had a kind of Dickensian childhood. The neglect. And he was a terrible student. His whole life is a study in trying to overcome your feelings of inadequacy. "

" Money is just a low priority for me. I'm more interested in good work than a big bank account. "

" 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. "

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

" The theater is my power center, and I love doing it in New York. "

" Churchill faced his own diminishing capabilities and increasing irrelevance by maintaining the sense that he was the only one who could solve whatever problem was before him. He was very often wrong, of course, but then he had spent so much of his life overcoming appalling mistakes, disasters, and rejections. "

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

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I tell young people, including my own kids, don't do this, it's too difficult. It's a career full of rejection, disappointment and failure. It's murderously hard on the ego. Don't become an actor. "

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

" Oh, I'm dying to play Donald Trump someday, just because he's an unbelievable character. I'm a character actor; that's what you look for: outsized human beings. "

" There's no more private family than the royal family. People who can really only be themselves with each other. The rest of us just spend all our time fascinated by them. "

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

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

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