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.

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.

I did work out every day. I needed it to have the endurance to do what needed to be done and not get hurt. I have such a new respect for action stars now.

I mean the only thing that is hopefully good about us is after the arguments we can actually still face each other the next day or the day after and talk about something else and sort of get over it.

My favorite singer to this day is Nat King Cole. I've tried to emulate his phrasing. It is so absolutely beautiful to listen to his lovely voice.

I want to have babies one day but not right now. When I do it I want to do it really well. I want it to be my best project in life.

I think I've become a much better singer and a much better player. Years and years of playing a couple of hours every day will do that.

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

I just wrote one song at a time. Kinda like an alcoholic. One day at a time.

Working mothers do an hour more per day than working fathers do and working mothers do on average an hour more per day with the kids than working fathers do.

When it is time to get to work, I go away completely and don't do anything except the work. And that can be 16 hours a day.

George Pal had total control, and he was there on the set every day. You never met a more charming man in your entire lifetime - what a lovely gentleman.

I'll tell you what I did need to learn was tolerance, and I think I've been actually given a daily opportunity to practice that, and it's - it's - and I know that that sounds almost like a backhanded slap, and it is in a way because I haven't been successful at it every day.

Since the beginning, I always loved the game. When you grow up in Montreal, one day you want to be a professional hockey player. When I was six or seven, I knew that was what I wanted.

Depending on what day of the week it is and what time of the month it is, I'm a good friend or not a good friend. I'm more or less a good mom or not a good mom, more or less a good mate or not a good mate. That's just life, whether or not you're public.

Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poet's health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same.

A play is much easier to maintain your personal life with because if you're rehearsing, you're working like from 11 to 6 or 11 to 5 and you get to have your whole morning and your whole evening. When you're doing the play, you have all day.