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" 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. "

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

" Audiences are audiences. "

" 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 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. "

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

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

" 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.' "

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

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

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

" I created the role of Captain Von Trapp. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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