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

My life exists in an imagined reality.

I believe there's a common ground in what all gifted writers write. It has to do with their wish to turn darkness into light.

The great love of my life is music.

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

My sense of religion is Einstein's sense of relativity. I don't believe in God. I believe that energy never dies. So the possibility exists that you might be breathing in some other form of Moses or Buddha or Muhammad or Bobby Kennedy or Roosevelt or Martin Luther King or Jesus.

If you stand too close to a painting - all you see are patches of color, if you stand too far back, you can't see any of the detail.