Judaism is much more communal, and partly as a consequence of my religious switch, I am increasingly more suspicous of my previous view that what people do in the privacy of their own home is their business alone.

I'm not jumping into anything fast. I'm an actor that likes to choose my work and there's an element of good taste to my work.

I decided to take God and organized religion seriously, and to reject the secular life which in my teens had looked attractive because it allowed me to act in any way that I wanted.

I loved history, particularly of the British, American and Old Testament kind.

In my right-wing politics of the time, I held that unemployment was usually the fault of the unemployed.

I knew in my gut that there was something wrong with a system that couldn't fire its incompetents, and I had my share of incompetent college teachers.

I believed that English-speaking people had a divine mission to civilize the world by making it western, democratic and Christian.