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

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" I am first, and foremost, an actor. That's what I am. To me, a song is a mini-drama. My musical ability informs the actor as well because it gives me a sense of timing that non-musicians don't have. So, one hand washes the other. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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'm exceedingly proud of being an actor, but I never recommend it to anyone. "

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

" Epistemology is the study of knowledge. By what conduit do we know what we know? "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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 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. "

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

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

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" 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? "

" 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 created the role of Captain Von Trapp. "

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

" '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? "

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

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

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