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

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

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" 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. "

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

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

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

" Every actor wants to direct. "

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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. "

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

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

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" 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. "

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