Acting is not about knowing all this stuff; it's about character.

Then I realized that to be really good at this requires a lot of energy and concentration and skill.

If you don't think you want to go on a train and read the paper every day and work from nine to six at night, there was something about the uncertainty when I was younger which was very attractive

Too often in the past, U.S. leaders have forced Israel to pay the price for American strategic interests in the Middle East - through concessions in the peace process as well as passivity in the face of Iraqi attacks

Acting is not about knowing all this stuff; it's about character.

I've seen people with a tremendous amount of educational background in the field not turn out to be terribly good actors, and I've seen people with no education in the field turn out to be people that I admire quite a bit

Nobody has a franchise on what is good.