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

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

I don't really know of the Jewish tradition of comedy, only the Jewish tradition of not keeping your mouth shut. Complaining about all that is hard, unfair or ridiculous in life-having strong feelings, and not being able to suppress them. That, to me, is Jewish.

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.

We must agree to live in this world, with all that is unfair about it, without knowing why, if we wish to have a God in our lives.

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.

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.