The Emmy should be an ensemble award, too. I kept howling at everyone else's performances.

The Emmy should be an ensemble award, too. I kept howling at everyone else's performances.

I came to New York late; I was already past 30.

I loved the gentlemanly way they treated each other. It was unlike anything I was used to. I started helping them strike the set and, at 11, began taking acting classes privately.

I love this company. I don't know how it was selected. It's a bunch of machers. They mean business.

When I got this role, my daughter Molly said, 'Dad, you've come full circle.

I remember going to Bob Preston's dressing room because I was losing a laugh - as you do in a long run. He said, 'Give me the script. That's where you're going off the road.' That's comedy. It's never the line itself; it's in the foundation.

My education was doing good plays and also stinkers. When you do a stinker, you learn how to act. I like having to audition. It's nice to do rehearsals. But it's with an audience that you get to love it!

This whole thing about winning and losing is muddy waters. But I can remember, as a young actor, just walking around this city and not being able to get arrested.

As my manager says, 'These are wonderful problems.'

My part had three lines. I said, 'You look wonderful, sir,' three times. All my friends said, 'Do not take that role - and do not understudy. You'll regret it the rest of your life.' I did both of those things, and I've never regretted it once.

And I'd watch George C. Scott from backstage. He was one of my mentors.

I wanted to go to a good college, and my mind was set on Wellesley.

If power was a a cry then human lives were lived in the echo of the cries of others.

I've been very lucky not to have turned down too many roles that I've later regretted.

Sometimes you have to stop something to really measure the passion that you have, and either you feel like moving, or you don't, and then maybe it's time to stop.

Film has far more color shades. It's called 'bit depth' in digital terms. And most bit depth in digital is about twelve, but film bit depth can be twenty to thirty. And so you just have more shades of yellow and red and oranges and everything.

When I wake up, I'm like, 'I gotta go to Whole Foods.' I'm constantly reading cookbooks; I bring hardcover cookbooks with me on the plane and tag pages. I just have this crazy food obsession.

I was probably like 13 years old, 14. And I used to walk home doing the beatbox from school. That's how I created it. There was no walkmans back then, no iPods, no CDs. There was just me. Back then there was the boom box.

The younger Mary J. Blige, I would call her, she was very unaware, ignorant.

Costs of manufactured articles importantly depend on the cost of raw materials as well as labour.

I write box notes for Kino International, which specializes in distributing foreign films.

I have a hyper personality.

I have a kind of innate sense of structure, which also makes me a good mimic.

I think people just think I am crazy because they see me doing stand-up, but I am generally not. I am very sad. I'm one of those guys that lights candles and listens to Rachmaninoff.

I've done so much different stuff, people kinda go, 'Do you live in Islington?' 'Did you used to go to so and so school?' And when I say I'm an actor, they don't believe me!

I remember the youth movement in 1968. It started on American university campuses as a protest against the Vietnam war, then came to Paris, Frankfurt and Berlin. Within a year, you had an uprising of youth against their elders.

Wake up early everyday so that while others are still dreaming, you can make your dreams come true.

Some tribes of birds will relieve and rear up the young and helpless, of their own and other tribes, when abandoned.

I spent my junior year in Switzerland. On the way back home, I spent some time in England, and I remember going to Hyde Park Corner. And there was a Roman Catholic priest in his collar, standing on a soapbox, preaching the Catholic faith and being heckled by a group. And I thought, 'My goodness.' I thought that was admirable.

Its risky in a marriage for a man to come home too late but it can sometimes pose an even greater risk if he comes home too early.

Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.

My parents thought it was nice to develop my imagination, but they never seriously thought that anything would ever come of it. They said that I couldn't be an actress because I would be taller than all my leading men, so I thought I would be a writer instead.

Watches are the only jewelry men can wear, unless you're Mr. T.

You are the center of your universe, and you can make anything happen.

Once you enter the public's eye, you have to be aware that you give up a huge part of your own life.