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" Accents. I'm very good with accents. I'm exceedingly good. "

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

" 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. "

" Despite a large body of work in films, TV, theatre and concerts, I am viewed by many as a Jewish artist. I do not resent the label, except for the fact that I disapprove of labels in general. "

" 'Retiring' - within that word is 'tiring,' and I'm not tired. I don't believe in retirement, really. "

" I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family. "

" I remain convinced that I can be a true universalist only when I am a better Jew. "

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

" I am not a specialist but a general practitioner in the world of the arts. "

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

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

" I know for certain of only one commandment, one obligation, that God imposes upon us, and that is to be compassionate toward other human beings. "

" 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. "

" No movement can afford to be caught in a time warp and exist in a state of suspended animation. "

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

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

" But, when I toil in the field of Jewish culture which I frequently do, I am indeed a Jewish artist. "

" By showing hunger, deprivation, starvation and brutality, as well as endurance and nobility, documentaries inform, prod our memories, even stir us to action. Such films do battle for our very soul. "

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

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

" One might have thought the world would stop ascribing moral equivalence between acts of terrorism and acts of punishing terrorism. It has not happened that way. "

" I prefer to make common cause with those whose weapons are guitars, banjos, fiddles and words. "

" I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. I would stand around in heaps of manure and sing about the beauty of the work I wasn't doing. "

" I do prefer the stage. It's really the granddaddy of them all. "

" No doubt unity is something to be desired, to be striven for, but it cannot be willed into being by mere declarations. "

" I refuse to do shows that are narrowly constructed, that appeal to only one sentiment. I do a lot of Jewish material in front of non-Jews and a lot of non-Jewish material in front of Jews on the simple theory that the non-Jews are entitled to a glimpse of a Jewish world and the Jews are entitled to a glimpse of the world. "

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