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"I would always fall down the big main staircase in our house. My favorite thing in the world was to pretend to be horribly killed at the top of it, and to fall dramatically down to the bottom of it."
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"Fishing seems to be the favorite form of loafing."

"I really don't have a favorite course. I usually ask where there are the least players."

"Lou Reed is something like a personal favorite of mine, but you could always put me into that drawer of singers who can't really sing, who speak their songs."

"Alison Krauss is definitely my favorite singer that's ever lived. I've never heard anyone like her."

"My favorite episode of Stargate? All of them! My favorite episode of Parker Lewis? All of them!"

"My favorite is still the one that I started off with, which is a Les Paul Standard. I've played that at every gig I've ever had. And that's my starting point in the studio."

"My favorite rocker is Go because it is heavy and chaotic."

"Ray Leonard was more of a favorite than Thomas Hearns that night."
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"I would always fall down the big main staircase in our house. My favorite thing in the world was to pretend to be horribly killed at the top of it, and to fall dramatically down to the bottom of it."

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

"Maybe it's because I'm getting older, I'm finding enjoyment in things that stop time. Just the simple act of tasting a glass of wine is its own event. You're not downing a glass of wine in the midst of doing something else."

"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."
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