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.

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.

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.

She's not quite making sense, but no one does all the time.

To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.

Every successful work of God must have opposition.

Always pack your uniform on top.

Man is the being whose project it is to be God.

Without theory, practice is but routine born of habit. Theory alone can bring forth and develop the spirit of inventions.

Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a purpose in life is not.

Since I was in high school, I wanted to play professional football and professional baseball, be a two-sport star.

I find it greatly disturbing that the Bush administration has used political and religious ideologies to influence national policy on science and medicine.

And it is very much lamented,... That you have no such mirrors as will turn Your hidden worthiness into your eye That you might see your shadow.