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

I glory in the fact that a human being has multiple talents and exercises them all with a degree of integrity and artistic proficiency. That's what I do.

Throughout my life I have cared as deeply about the songs of all peoples as I have about the rights of all peoples.

An actor is supposed to emulate life. Instead, alas, many are imitating other actors. You don't fashion your knowledge of theatre or your approach to a role on the basis of what other actors have done. This kind of thinking is a great danger, especially in dealing with TV producers who frequently say things like, 'This is a Sean Connery type.'

When something is moving you get that intake of breath and that stillness from the audience.

What moves me is neither ethnocentric pride nor sectarian arrogance. I make no claim that Jewish culture is superior to other cultures. But it is mine.

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.