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

I am determined to give the Yiddish language a fighting chance to survive.

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.

For I firmly believe that Jewish life, indeed any communal life, can only be organized according to democratic principles.

Having come to live in this age is as though one were to have entered another country. Learn its language or risk being left out.

All too often arrogance accompanies strength, and we must never assume that justice is on the side of the strong. The use of power must always be accompanied by moral choice.

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