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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

" Every actor wants to direct. "

" 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 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" You don't really need modernity in order to exist totally and fully. You need a mixture of modernity and tradition. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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