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

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

" You always draw on your experiences with live audiences to know how to do comedy on films. You're working for a laugh that may or may not come six months later, but you're working in a vacuum at the time you are doing it. "

" There is no role I cannot play except a midget. "

" 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. "

" It's a sad thing to contemplate, but I'm the last surviving cast member of 'The African Queen.' "

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

" 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 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" We live in a world of guns, bombs and terror. To conquer hate seems a nigh-impossible task. "

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

" Every actor wants to direct. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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? "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I do not know who there is among us that can claim to know God's purpose and God's intent. "

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

" I have always striven to raise the voice of hope for a world where hate gives way to respect and oppression to liberation. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" All too often arrogance accompanies strength, and we must never assume that justice is on the side of the strong. The use of power must always be accompanied by moral choice. "

" After the advent of the written word, the masses who could not - or were not permitted to - read, were given sermons by the few who could. "