Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

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

Related Quotes:

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

" 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. "

" But there is a difference here: When Jewish children are murdered, Arabs celebrate the deed. The death of an Arab child is no cause for celebration in Israel. "

" 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. "

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

" Every actor wants to direct. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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 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 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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