I always did plays in school because I thought it was fun, but it just never occurred to me as a thing to do.

It probably goes without saying that I enjoy the potato pancakes, delicious hams and so forth that maddeningly turn up at this time of year.

In general, I'm always interested in characters who have kind of extreme aspects to them, who are in some ways larger than typical people.

I have a secret aspiration to be considered for a part where it doesn't matter what you look like to play it.

I'm one of relatively few stage-trained actors who doesn't much like acting on stage. It feels kind of like riding the Cyclone at Coney Island, which I did when I was eight. When it was all over, I was glad I had done it, but most of the time when it was actually happening, I was just kind of hanging on for dear life.

I am tolerably ignorant about Judaism, and much of what I do know about it seems hard to swallow, because it is so grounded in legalism, and adherence to rituals.

It's funny, but three of my early films were with Liam Neeson, before Liam Neeson was a big star.