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

I don't speak out because I am an actor nor will I keep silent because I am an actor. I respect my profession, but it endows me with no special privileges; but it also does not limit me or muzzle me. I am a person and a citizen with the attendant responsibilities of voice and vote.

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

I am a Zionist, an ardent supporter of Israel, its defender when I deem Israel to be right and its critic when I deem it to be wrong.

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.

As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government.

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.'