Take care, be kind, be considerate of other people and other species, and be loving.
Time sneaks up on you like a windshield on a bug.
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.
You kill three people, they call you a murderer. You kill a million people, they call you a conqueror. Go figure.
I learned the most about myself, and you ask what I learned? Well, I learned my strengths and my weaknesses, and it's far more important to learn about your weaknesses than your strengths.
If we are ever going to save this society and the world, there has got to be a way for us to work together. That may be more than we can ever hope to achieve, just because of human nature.
The most exciting acting tends to happen in roles you never thought you could play.
Books make great gifts because they're something you love that you can share.
I never get tired of hearing compliments.
I gave up shame a long time ago.
If you read in front of your kids, it's very likely that they'll become readers, too
I went to Princeton High School, when I was very serious about being an artist. I was in a theatre family but I didn't want to become an actor.
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
We should have charity for what the dead say. We may disapprove of what they say, but we should not insult them and revile them knowing they cannot not defend themselves.
If my life was a play, age 35 was my intermission.
I keep looking for things I haven't done yet.
I always tell that to young people - go to college, do theater, work with an audience. Don't try to learn how to act in front of millions and millions of people. Don't make that your first ambition, to be on a sitcom or get into the movies. Learn who you are as an actor, and the best way to do that is to do it in front of an audience.
That's how you deal with stardom; you make it the least important part of your life.
I grew up in a theater family. My father was a regional theater classical repertory producer. He created Shakespeare festivals. He produced all of Shakespeare's plays, mostly in Shakespeare festivals in Ohio. One of them, the Great Lakes Theater Festival in Cleveland, is still going. So I grew up not wanting to be an actor, not wanting to go into the family business.
In animation, there's this exhilarating moment of discovery when you see the film and you say, Oh THAT'S what I was doing.
My father was a man of the theater. I grew up in a theater family. As a young man, as a boy, I gypsied around with my siblings and my parents to, like, eight different towns, went to eight different schools. All those things were extremely formative, and I think that's what happens.
When you end a successful sitcom, the most sensible thing to do is go back to the theater.
Any character you play, you're on his side. You do have the third eye that looks at what an appalling creature he is, but you have to look at what's good about him.
I have a lot of faith in people.
I subscribe to the great George G. Scott quote, "All actors are in trouble. Directors who don't help are a pain in the ass". We all need help from directors. We are all equally insecure.
