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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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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.' "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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" Accents. I'm very good with accents. I'm exceedingly good. "

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

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