I always sang, I always acted, I always played.

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.

We Jews have a special attachment to the Book. The study of page after page in tomes yellowing with age was obligatory.

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

No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.

But there is a difference here: When Jewish children are murdered, Arabs celebrate the deed. The death of an Arab child is no cause for celebration in Israel.

If I have one vanity wish, it would be to direct. It's the only thing I haven't done yet that I would like to.