I've got a business manager and he'll just come right out and say, 'It wasn't the best part for you,' or 'It was okay, but I've seen you do better.' ….

I've played a lot of roles I haven't wanted to play, either because they needed someone in the theatre or because they couldn't do it without me 'cau….

I don't much care to watch myself. There are still probably 50 or 60 episodes of 'Frasier' that I have never seen..

I took the fear of marriage from my parents' relationship, because I didn't want to end up in a relationship like that, whereas my brothers and siste….

I don't need the money after 11 years on 'Frasier,' and there aren't that many great roles onstage left for somebody my age. I'm more interested in p….

'Frasier' was a classy gig. I didn't for one minute think it was less prestigious or artistic than doing a play..

So much luck! I'm not putting myself down, I'm not saying I don't have talent - I must have, to have got this far - but I honestly believe that some ….

People say there's no trace of an accent anymore, and there isn't because I worked very hard to lose it. And the reason I did that is a British accen….

What I mostly do is take the script, analyse the hell out of it, see what's in there, see what kind of person I'm dealing with, and then forget I'm p….

I'm not intimidated by other actors at all - or directors. I don't care who they are. But I am intimidated by writers. I hold them in the highest est….

You can take the boy out of England, but you can't take England out of the boy. And ummm, yes, I feel a huge emotional attachment to England..

My first acting class was taught by a little known playwright, David Mamet, who then cast me in my first play, opposite John Malkovich..

I believe in divine inspiration and things like that and I really relish a good, attentive, participating audience..

I don’t think the United States has done anything whatsoever to merit any criticism by the British..

And then I went to visit my sister in the states and all of a sudden it was just like, it's like... it's like the movie Wizard of Oz when all of a su….

I don't take much from my own father, because he was a very austere, quiet, private man who would come home from work, go to his parlour and play Bee….

It was post war. It was very gray, very dreary. Everything was still rationed when I first saw the United States in 1951. I went over to visit my sis….

I think the Democratic Party realizes, having lost two presidential elections, we need to do a better job of creating a farm team..

I belonged to Stratford Children's Theater when I was a boy growing up in Manchester. Even then, I was always doing character parts..

I'm a dog person, I've had dogs all my life. But you see, it's not really a dog. It's more like a little robot. It's an actor. It displays no emotion….

I like to learn the lines and not get any precontrived things in my head about the part. Just get on stage and see what the other actors are doing, a….