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

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

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

" 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. "

" '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? "

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

" 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? "

" Audiences are audiences. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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.' "

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

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

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

" 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 know for certain of only one commandment, one obligation, that God imposes upon us, and that is to be compassionate toward other human beings. "

" 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. "

" But, when I toil in the field of Jewish culture which I frequently do, I am indeed a Jewish artist. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Every actor wants to direct. "

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