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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Feminists who accept the claim made in The Book of Genesis, and, that God is a he, need to make their minds up.

Be present in all things and thankful for all things.

Each citizen should play his part in the community according to his individual gifts.

When I'm good, I'm very good. But when I'm bad I'm better.

Maybe I should just go home and ride my tractor.

Intelligent design is consistent with any faith system I can think of, because most faith systems believe that there is a creator.

Bridges are happy, because they do not judge those who come to them.

Everybody goes through rough things in their lives, us included. The best advice we can give is to never give up, and always believe in yourself because when you do that, anything is possible.

Passion is the force that springs an artist from the needling cushion of depression.

It will be all right if it turns out all right.