I remain convinced that I can be a true universalist only when I am a better Jew.

No doubt unity is something to be desired, to be striven for, but it cannot be willed into being by mere declarations.

The play is always fresh to me. It's not the audience's fault that I've said the words before.

After the advent of the written word, the masses who could not - or were not permitted to - read, were given sermons by the few who could.

Every actor wants to direct and produce, but I made a conscious decision when I was in college to understand the 'business' of 'show business.'

I do prefer the stage. It's really the granddaddy of them all.

I created the role of Captain Von Trapp.