Thank God that I am not over 75 so that James Earl Jones knows who the hell I am.

The story about me, apocryphal or not, is that I could sing before I spoke. My parents went into bedroom one day and there I was standing in the crib singing God Bless America.

I didn't want to do anything my mother wanted me to do so surely I wasn't going to sing for her.

Making a film of a work you've played for six weeks gives you intimate knowledge of the character. By the time you go in front of the camera you've worked out the behavior and life of a character.

We do a lot of shows for young people who have probably never been to the theater before and they are learning about the Holocaust, which unhappily, many of them do not know about.

It was always acting, singing and dancing that I loved.

Talking about auditions, you never know what anyone else is thinking.

Sooner or later everything will turn to dust - except love

He never, even in the most casual conversation with friends, spoke a sentence which did not sound as if it was ready for the air.

Nothing inspires people more than reckless acts of courage.

Art and religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstacy.

I'm never going to retire and say, 'This is it. This is my last show.' I will not go on tour - I promised my wife and son no more than two weeks on the road.

At the heart of all great art is an essential melancholy.

Love isn't a perfect state of caring.

I'm a bad dater. I'm the most socially awkward person, like carrying on conversations and stuff.

The condition of your birth doesn't determine the outcome of your life. This is America.

I understand the climate we live in and why people are curious. But it's just tough and almost emotionally violent - for anyone, I think - to see your personal life summarized in a sentence.