I prefer to choose which traditions to keep and which to let go.

'Visiting Mr. Green' is a good play. I enjoy being in it, and I have a wonderful colleague, Aidan deSalaiz, to work with. Audiences like it a lot. What's not to like?

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

No movement can afford to be caught in a time warp and exist in a state of suspended animation.

Must we be put to shame by much smaller and poorer countries, by Ireland, France, Austria or Sweden, who have understood that a nation's support of its arts is a matter of both national pride and cultural survival?

Despite a large body of work in films, TV, theatre and concerts, I am viewed by many as a Jewish artist. I do not resent the label, except for the fact that I disapprove of labels in general.

I'm exceedingly proud of being an actor, but I never recommend it to anyone.