Top 22 Quotes by Kevin Kline

I had studied piano since I was 13, but I was surrounded by students who'd been playing since they were 5. I realized I was never going to be anything but mediocre.

I can play characters who sing, but I don't like singing in a nightclub or something. It's not my metier.

But, I do think, on a very simplistic level, that we can project onto dogs because they are so innocent. They don't come with a lot of baggage.

Dogs do have feelings, I gather.

I never went to class. That the university graduated me at all is an indictment of our educational system.

I don't like talking about myself. I don't like talking about my personal life.

I totally related to Cole Porter's magnetic pull to any piano that was in the room, which he was famous for doing, as was Gershwin. You couldn't drag them away from a piano.

Nothing makes an actor feel freer and more inventive and more creative than being trusted.

I vowed I would never do a commercial, or a soap opera - both of which I did as soon as I left the Acting Company and was starving.

Lots of people fantasize about what it would be like if they were president... Most think they'd be decent and wouldn't be corrupted at all, that they'd remain true to themselves.