On the stage you're there, it's live. There's a beginning, a middle, an end. When something is funny you hear it right away.

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

'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.

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.

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

Right up to the middle of this century all perceptions of the world around us were delivered via the bookshelf or the paper route.