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

I'm a con artist in that I'm an actor. I make people believe something is real when they know perfectly well it isn't.

Academics tend to have wonderfully infantile senses of humor.

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

Time sneaks up on you like a windshield on a bug.

In animation, there's this exhilarating moment of discovery when you see the film and you say, Oh THAT'S what I was doing.

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

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

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

I gave up shame a long time ago.

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

I'm very concerned for the future of the earth and its amazing creatures. We've got to be careful and make sure we don't foul our own nest.

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

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.

If you read in front of your kids, it's very likely that they'll become readers, too.

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.

Shakespeare is like mother's milk to me.

I'd sleep under a Vermeer.

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

I can't imagine doing an hour-long dramatic series because it's so much work. A sitcom is a wonderful gig. You work from 10 to 4 every day, it's fun, and you get to live at home.

The Broadway audience is made up of a greater percentage of tourists now. There's not nearly as much variety and danger and challenge in what's being offered.

Everybody's a dreamer.

When you end a successful sitcom, the most sensible thing to do is go back to the theater.

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

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

I never get tired of hearing compliments.

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 was in 20 Shakespearean plays by the time I was 20.

I have a lot of faith in people.

In animation, there's this exhilarating moment of discovery when you see the film and you say, oh that's what I was doing.

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

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

The most exciting acting tends to happen in roles you never thought you could play.

When good things come along you end up saying yes to them. Because theyre rare.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.

This record has a lot of influences that I'd love to cover, like Marvin Gaye and Earth, Wind and Fire. Maybe I'll do some covers of my major influences during my live show.

I was tweaked by the idea of Superman immediately.

When you speak to a lot of kids, as I've done over the years, you know what to say, keep them laughing, good illustrations and learn to read.

I love being able to express myself through what I wear - and for it to be a way of expressing uniqueness and individuality.

Stunt work offers a diversity of roles and, while I'm used to anonymity, I really like showing off and performing in front of camera, though I know my limitations.

I like to take it easy.

Going through the grief period of my dad and losing him - that was the worst thing because you know when you get that call. When you are seven, eight years old, you have that almost vision in your mind of what that's going to be like and what your going to feel like and it doesn't prepare you.

It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.

I'm a big personality. I walk into a room, big and tall and loud.

Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.

The task ahead of us will be extremely challenging as the Tory party continue with their austerity agenda and as we continue to resolve the issues of the past and build unity, reconciliation, and equality.

What I've certainly learned is that whenever I've said anything about real politics, I've come under attack. So it's best simply to play politics on television.

I just adored working with Woody. He was more than I could have ever dreamed of. I'd do it a million times over.

I would worry if people always associated me with Larry Sokolov.