Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

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

Related Quotes:

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" No doubt unity is something to be desired, to be striven for, but it cannot be willed into being by mere declarations. "

" '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? "

" I created the role of Captain Von Trapp. "

" 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.' "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Every actor wants to direct. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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