I found every single laugh as Laertes that you can find and only realized later that you really shouldn't find any at all.

My dad had been an actor... not only had my dad been an actor, but his dad had been an actor, and my great-grandfather had been an actor. And who knows before then?

I always think extremism is basically a reaction out of fear. What we seem to be experiencing is polar extremism that keeps people from coming together.

We can't control what the ratings will be. It's like, if you're going to go skiing, do you hope you'll have a good day of skiing? Yes. Do you hope you won't break your leg? Yes.

Alzheimer's is a devastating disease. It was painful for me and my family to watch my grandfather deteriorate. We must find a cure for this horrible disease.

I don't have the time to tell you all the things I've learned from this cast. It's an extraordinary ensemble because we all support each other so well.

The first year I was on the show, it took an interviewer about 45 minutes to get it out of me that I even had a dog, and even then I wouldn't tell him the dog's name.

I was chased through a chateau in the Loire Valley by a bunch of American school girls.

So much of life is paradox. So much of life is neither one thing nor the other... it's both things at the same time.

Don't you always feel bad when they take away one of the spoons? It's like you ordered wrong.

People can be a hoot on the set, but if they're not good to work with, that tires very quickly.

I remember my own childhood vividly...I knew terrible things. But I knew I mustn't let adults know I knew. It would scare them

And the part about being a professional artist is that you can tell, and you can do it over again, even if you can't say how you got there exactly.

I want everyone to vote. I want everyone to be a part of electing officials. Because when we are not a part, when we don't have a very broad voter base, then we don't have true representation.

The Tanakh says John Lennon is wrong.

Part of love is letting a person be who they want to be

We have become a force of nature.

There are very few players who know what to do when they're not marked. So sometimes you tell a player: that attacker is very good, but don't mark him.

You're at the mercy of the editors' hands.

The man who is not able to develop and use his mind is bound to be the slave of the other man who uses his mind

He sendeth sun, he sendeth shower, Alike they're needed to the flower; And joys and tears alike are sent To give the soul its nourishment.