But I think theatre in a repressive society is an immensely exciting event and theatre in a luxurious old, affluent old society like ours is an entertaining event.

My mother was very agnostic. She would never set foot in the synagogue, she couldn't be doing with it.

Now that we have a democracy and you can go back and the airport air is not laden with evil any more, you can actually breathe oxygen when you land in Johannesburg.

Jews have had to carry around their own sense of self in a carpet bag and I think perhaps too much emphasis might be being put on nationality and on the other hand patriotism, that sort of thing.

And I think that that emphasis on keeping a family together, alike, I think it's important.

I mean one of the basic rules when you're acting is that you mustn't stand in judgement on a character, you mustn't say Hitler was a bad man because you can't act in that way.

Always you find that the more decisive event wins so my father's sort of annual decisiveness which came upon him on the Day of Atonement every year, he suddenly remembered that he was Jewish.

I find its attention to living this life rather than the next one exhilarating because I think even independently of Judaism that that's the right way to go about life.

One tries to be an observer as an actor and indeed as a director because the small things, the give-away things are what are really interesting to a performer.

I suppose meeting people whether it's in real life and actually shaking their flesh and blood hand or shaking the mystical hand of the character all rub off on you in some way.

I still find that a kind of stricture of the heart happens when I see any form of bigoted or racist behaviour. I get an actual pain in my heart.

Critical thinking is a necessary and vital skill".~R. Alan Woods [2012]

Happiness is not always the answer let the other emotions out is sometimes what is needed

A recession doubles the necessity to be really focused on three or four tactics that can prove a return on investment.

Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.

If people really want to clean the sport of cycling up, all you have to do is put your money where your mouth is.

I want to bring something different to every film. I get a bit tired of actors who kind of are the same character in every film that they do.

Or. I hate that word. It’s two letters long and stuffed to the gills with reasonable doubt.

My whole thing is to inspire, to better people, to better myself forever in this thing that we call rap, this thing that we call hip hop.

You get much more heat when you do something current.

I early conceived a liking for, and sought every opportunity to relieve the sufferings of others.