One tries to be an observer as an actor and indeed as a director because the small things, the give-away things are what are really interesting to a performer.

So we do have our exits and our entrances and we are perhaps mere, but I think if one keep a certain joyousness in life which should be in playing, then good for one, but it's slightly more serious than that.

My mother was very agnostic. She would never set foot in the synagogue, she couldn't be doing with it.

It was but then, when you're, one of the great poisonous events that have infected us all who were in South Africa is that the idea of difference is drip fed into your veins. It's that that you fight.

Jews have had to carry around their own sense of self in a carpet bag and I think perhaps too much emphasis might be being put on nationality and on the other hand patriotism, that sort of thing.

Now that we have a democracy and you can go back and the airport air is not laden with evil any more, you can actually breathe oxygen when you land in Johannesburg.

I find its attention to living this life rather than the next one exhilarating because I think even independently of Judaism that that's the right way to go about life.