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.

Audiences are audiences.

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

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.

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?

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