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

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" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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

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

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

" I prefer to make common cause with those whose weapons are guitars, banjos, fiddles and words. "

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

" 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 make no claim that Jewish culture is superior to other cultures or that the Jewish song is better than the song of my neighbor. "

" You can't expect the entire world to come to New York to see you. You have to travel to them. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" If I have one vanity wish, it would be to direct. It's the only thing I haven't done yet that I would like to. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

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

" In my mind the city of Ariel is a thorn in Israel's side and a serious obstacle to peace. "

" 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. "

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

" '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? "

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

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