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"I'm very aware when I'm speaking to the English of how flat my Mid-Atlantic American voice is."

"American audiences tend to be more expressive than British ones."

"The real 1960s began on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. It came to seem that Kennedy's murder opened some malign trap door in American culture, and the wild bats flapped out."

"A poll earlier this year showed that 42 per cent of Americans believe we're in the End Times."
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"We all went to Kelsey's wedding, and yeah, we go to parties. We also go to each other's house. A group of us got together over at Kelsey's and just read through some plays just for the fun of it. That may not be everyone's idea of a good time, but we had a good time."

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

"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."

"On some level in acting, what you're trying to find is truth, because when it's true is when it's also funny."

"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 was going to be a concert pianist, and when I was in high school, my parents were scared to death that I would focus too much on that too soon. And that I'd end up in some sort of dead end, and not fulfilling whatever potential they thought I had."

"There's nothing worse than putting two similar shows back-to-back. Viewers don't want to watch one show and then sit through another half-hour of almost the same thing."

"I was as happy doing theater in New York for little or no money as I am now doing television for more money. The happiness, I guess, comes out of it being a good job. The success has to do with the fact that it's a good job that will continue."
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