I created the role of Captain Von Trapp.

You can't expect the entire world to come to New York to see you. You have to travel to them.

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.

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

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.