 For me, working on stage is much more exhausting than all the other mediums, but it's also much more thrilling. |
| I'm a fun father, but not a good father. The hard decisions always went to my wife. |
| I was in 20 Shakespearean plays by the time I was 20. |
| 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. |
| If you read in front of your kids, it's very likely that they'll become readers, too. |
| Academics tend to have wonderfully infantile senses of humor. |
| What you aspire to on a sitcom is the feeling of live comedy. |
| Look at the darkest hit musicals - Cabaret, West Side Story, Carousel - they are exuberant experiences. They send you out of the theater filled with music. |
| It's a very tough time for the playwright. Broadway has become almost a musical comedy theme park with all these long-running shows. |
| When you end a successful sitcom, the most sensible thing to do is go back to the theater. |
| I gave up shame a long time ago. |
| The Broadway audience is made up of a greater percentage of tourists now. There's not nearly as much variety and danger and challenge in what's being offered. |
| If it's well written and well directed and you've got good actors to work with, acting is easy. But making sure all the ducks are in a row is the hard part. It's very rare. |
| I can't imagine doing an hour-long dramatic series because it's so much work. A sitcom is a wonderful gig. You work from 10 to 4 every day, it's fun, and you get to live at home. |
| Shakespeare is like mother's milk to me. |
| I keep looking for things I haven't done yet. |
| Everybody's a dreamer. |
| There's nothing like spending an evening with an audience every night. |
| Up there with my awards, I have a great big statue of Groucho Marx, just to put everything in perspective. |
| I find I have to walk a little faster in public these days, but it's very easy to remember when nobody had any idea who I was. |
