Our writer would play the piano and then come up with songs on the spot that included all of us. It was so fun!

It's scientifically proven that chocolate improves your mood. There is something in it that can make you happier and I stand by that theory. Milk chocolate. It's so good!

When I came to America, I told my dad I wanted to be an actress.

A lot of movies that come from Israel are about war, but there is such good, funny, rounded writing that comes from the country that I wish more people would discover.

I've always performed. I've done plays at home.

I'm worried about everything at all times.

Whenever I look at a baby or children in general, I smile and just want to play with them.

It's a challenge getting rid of your accent.

I went to a dialect coach and she told me that I had five problems; two were my Israeli accent and three were my New Jersey accent. I don't even want to know what I sounded like back then!

I become obsessed with one thing or one look, a Bohemian look for instance, and then I wear that for a while.

It was so hard to watch myself back because whatever movie I do, I never look at the monitor. I hate looking at the monitor.

It is true to say that the secret of a winning formula is the ability to accept that there is a vast area of unexploited potential beyond what you currently perceive to be your maximum.

Remember this! It is never an entire people who is cruel

It's amazing how, over time, a person's perspective can be altered.

[On being a judge for the 1986 Booker Prize:] I got to the point where I couldn't read a laundry list without considering it for the Booker Prize.

Your fellowship with God never came because of your righteousness. So how could your own righteousness maintain it?

I think glamour all the time. I wake up in the morning and I’m already thinking glamour.

Pantagruel was telling me that he believed the queen had given the symbolic word used among her subjects to denote sovereign good cheer, when she said to her tabachins, A panacea.

AIDS and malaria and TB are national security issues. A worldwide program to get a start on dealing with these issues would cost about $25 billion... It's, what, a few months in Iraq.

Sometimes the truth has difficulty breaching the city walls of our beliefs. A lie, dressed in the correct livery, passes through more easily.

Good teachers deserve apples; great teachers deserve chocolate. A favorite quotation, written in calligraphy on his office door.