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"I had all the usual ambition growing up. I wanted to be a writer, a musician, a hockey player. I wanted to do something that wasn't nine to five. Acting was the first thing I tried that clicked."
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"Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part."
"It's interesting to play a role where you don't really have to preoccupy yourself with any need to convince yourself that you're not acting."
"I'm not one to dwell on rehearsal or preparation."
"And after you've done the acting, there's a lot of places you can put your input - in the editing, in the production of it, in the rewriting of it and so on."
"But when I was seven or eight, I did my first little piece of acting."
"I think that you get something for your acting from almost anything you do."
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"I'm also very proud to be a part of a trilogy of films that, if they do nothing else, allow people to check their problems at the door, sit down and have a good time."
"I love the irony. I'm perceived as being really young and yet I have the clinical condition of an old man."
"You know what I want? The answer is, I truly don't know what I want. I don't want to do a television series. I want to do dramas as well as comedies, but I have no idea what kind or in what order. Just give me the chance at them."
"You've probably read in People that I'm a nice guy - but when the doctor first told me I had Parkinson's, I wanted to kill him."
"One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered."
"If I were overweight because I ate too much, I would have far more of a complex. I would know if I just stopped eating and showed a little discipline I would be thin. But there's not a hell of a lot I can do about being short. You just gotta run with it."
"I'm kind of private and I keep things inside a lot, but it's been so wonderful to realize that people care about you in a very deep way and that there is some bond between an actor and his audience. I don't even know how to describe that feeling."
"I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli."
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