I love my work, I love the people I work with, I do the best I can.

Singing in Yiddish was a great thrill for me and came about through Joe Papp, the founder of The Public Theater.

You rarely pay the rent by doing Shakespeare or Ibsen.

I've been very blessed in my personal life and in my career and I have never been ungrateful for what I have.

I'm just an actor. I am nothing special.

I'm lyrically driven, I'm not musically driven.

Arthur Miller said one of my favorite lines ever, that he had the mother say to her two sons about a very unstable father in Death of a Salesman. She said, "Attention must be paid." It's one of the most resonant lines that I think he ever wrote, and I think attention must be paid to the truth.