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" 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. "

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" As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government. "

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

" 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? "

" Every actor wants to direct. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" Although I am deeply grateful to a great many people, I forgo the temptation of naming them for fear that I might slight any by omission. "

" You learn more from the flops than from the hits. "

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

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

" Audiences are audiences. "

" You cannot please all of the people all of the time, and that is truer in the arts than anywhere else. "

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

" In my mind the city of Ariel is a thorn in Israel's side and a serious obstacle to peace. "

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

" In my world, history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought, who won them and who lost them - unless there is a painting, a play, a song or a poem that speaks of the event. "

" I am not, and have never been, in favor of boycotting Israel. "

" What moves me is neither ethnocentric pride nor sectarian arrogance. I make no claim that Jewish culture is superior to other cultures. But it is mine. "

" An actor is supposed to emulate life. Instead, alas, many are imitating other actors. You don't fashion your knowledge of theatre or your approach to a role on the basis of what other actors have done. This kind of thinking is a great danger, especially in dealing with TV producers who frequently say things like, 'This is a Sean Connery type.' "

" While we all could agree that the Zionist ideal is alive and well, there is serious doubt whether the Zionist movement can be said to be an ongoing proposition, fragmented as its components are in ideology and in practice. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" But there is a difference here: When Jewish children are murdered, Arabs celebrate the deed. The death of an Arab child is no cause for celebration in Israel. "

" I am filled with awe that filmmakers have the capacity to stir us and give us back a sense of wonder. "

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

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

" I make no claim that Jewish culture is superior to other cultures or that the Jewish song is better than the song of my neighbor. "