I found every single laugh as Laertes that you can find and only realized later that you really shouldn't find any at all.

People can be a hoot on the set, but if they're not good to work with, that tires very quickly.

Maybe it's because I'm getting older, I'm finding enjoyment in things that stop time. Just the simple act of tasting a glass of wine is its own event. You're not downing a glass of wine in the midst of doing something else.

We can't control what the ratings will be. It's like, if you're going to go skiing, do you hope you'll have a good day of skiing? Yes. Do you hope you won't break your leg? Yes.

Last year, I finally got my own grand piano, and that was a big thing for me because it's always been and always will be a very important part of my life.

We all went to Kelsey's wedding, and yeah, we go to parties. We also go to each other's house. A group of us got together over at Kelsey's and just read through some plays just for the fun of it. That may not be everyone's idea of a good time, but we had a good time.

There's nothing worse than putting two similar shows back-to-back. Viewers don't want to watch one show and then sit through another half-hour of almost the same thing.

I went and took golf lessons so Dad would let me play with him. I was just terrible... but I was able to have a wonderful time just walking around with Dad. I can see the real pleasure of that game.

I was chased through a chateau in the Loire Valley by a bunch of American school girls.

Don't you always feel bad when they take away one of the spoons? It's like you ordered wrong.

Sometimes in the most tragic situation, something just profoundly funny happens.

On some level in acting, what you're trying to find is truth, because when it's true is when it's also funny.

I was as happy doing theater in New York for little or no money as I am now doing television for more money. The happiness, I guess, comes out of it being a good job. The success has to do with the fact that it's a good job that will continue.

My dad had been an actor... not only had my dad been an actor, but his dad had been an actor, and my great-grandfather had been an actor. And who knows before then?

I found every single laugh as Laertes that you can find and only realized later that you really shouldn't find any at all.

You only have a week to do a show. I mean, there's only so deep you can dig in that week.

I would always fall down the big main staircase in our house. My favorite thing in the world was to pretend to be horribly killed at the top of it, and to fall dramatically down to the bottom of it.

I was going to be a concert pianist, and when I was in high school, my parents were scared to death that I would focus too much on that too soon. And that I'd end up in some sort of dead end, and not fulfilling whatever potential they thought I had.

Alzheimer's is a devastating disease. It was painful for me and my family to watch my grandfather deteriorate. We must find a cure for this horrible disease.

The first year I was on the show, it took an interviewer about 45 minutes to get it out of me that I even had a dog, and even then I wouldn't tell him the dog's name.

From Kelsey, I have learned among many other things the value of turning on a dime and how you can have an extremely funny and extremely poignant moment with absolutely no separation in between... and sometimes in the same moment.

I don't remember any sibling rivalry growing up, because by the time I was really conscious, Tom was going away to college. My relationship with him, which is a very close one, really developed in more recent years.

I probably was as bad as a security guard as I was as a tie salesman.

I don't have the time to tell you all the things I've learned from this cast. It's an extraordinary ensemble because we all support each other so well.

I think Russell Crowe is a brilliant actor.

A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.

I love working with other people and bouncing ideas off them.

He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion.

I think I went to Italy initially for the art, architecture, food and history, but I stayed there because of the people in Cortona.

It's an actor's job to play all the human conditions - light, dark, and medium.

When the START 2 treaty has been implemented - and remember it has not yet been ratified - we will be left with some 15,000 nuclear warheads, active and in reserve. Fifteen thousand weapons with an average yield of 20 Hiroshima bombs.

I once tried to make lace - which has been a great obsession of women - unsexy. And I achieved it.

I've never set out consciously to write American music. I don't know what that would be unless the obvious Appalachian folk references.

Why do Greeks always open restaurants that fail?

I think all of the parties still have some way to go to better utilise IT in campaigns.

Expect much from yourself and little from others and you will avoid incurring resentments.

I liked acting early on, and I really liked roles that were meaningful to me, and 'Baywatch' was.

I always run inclusive and successful organisations.

Ballet is not technique but a way of expression that comes more closely to the inner language of man than any other.

When you work too much you are boring that is possible. But to have a happy life if you can do several things in the correct way that is perfect.

Thousands of present day students, like many of our Founding Fathers, are being taught at home.

As a child growing up in World War II, I was very moved and stirred by what was going on, but I distanced myself from history. I regarded history as just one more subject.

My parents raised me and my six siblings with little money... but lots of love.

Look at where Jesus went to pick people. He didn't go to the colleges; he got guys off the fishing docks.

The rise of the Dutch Republic must ever be regarded as one of the leading events of modern times.

I was a musical theater major at the University of Arizona. And I primarily trained with Marsha Bagwell. It was a classical program, so we did Chekov and Moliere and a lot of Shakespeare.

People like to trace their ancestry.

Pretty much anybody who does creative work in China navigates the gray zone. People aren't clear about where the line is any more, beyond which life gets really nasty and you become a dissident without having intended ever to be one.