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

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.

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.

I didn't do the typical things that young kids do.

My kids enjoy the Disney program, Lizzy McGuire.

I want to spend more time with those kids. I want to dedicate my time to train those kids and teach them what it takes, what they need to do to get to this level.

I think having eight kids evens things out a bit. You learn about the world; you learn about the world; you learn you've got to get along. We're all - if anything - very adjustable.

We're parents first, and once you have kids, everybody knows that you have priority lists. Number one is your family and everything else just kind of finds its place.

I want to promote poetry to the point where you got all the baldhead kids running around doing poetry, getting the music out of the way and having only words, the spoken word, and then see what happens.

If kids like a picture book, they're going to read it at least 50 times. Read anything that often, and even minor imperfections start to feel like gravel in the bed.

Sounds so silly, but I want to accomplish getting my kids through college.

And there's a lot of that stuff with people bringing their kids, kids bringing their parents, people bringing their grandparents - I mean, it's gotten to be really stretched out now. It was never my intention to say, this is the demographics of our audience.

It's up to each person's parents whether they think it's too frightening or too violent, how much their kids can handle, what they want to teach them, what they want to show them.

For kids it's natural to be competitive.

I'd hope to reach any kid who feels apart from the group - those who seem to be outsiders, who feel different. Kids who want to reach their parents often don't know how to do so.

So, not only am I panicking over the weekend if I need to know my lines, but also if can I get the kids to the zoo. Can I even go to church? I was asking for certain things that would allow me to plan my life a little better.

The real question isn't whether you love your kids or not, but how well you are able to demonstrate your love and caring so that your children really feel loved.