What I always say is, 'Do every job you're in like you're going to do it for the rest of your life, and demonstrate that ownership of it.'

Not everything needs changing. Some things need protecting. And that can be just as important, challenging and rewarding as changing the world.

My definition of innovative is providing value to the customer.

Don’t confuse progress with winning.

20 years ago, I was pushed and mentored and given challenging assignments and then supported. That allowed me to have the career path I've had.

Don’t be too engrossed with things of the world discover your purpose in life

WoyzeckUs poor people. Yes, money, money. You see, Captain, if you have no money. Try raising someone like me in this world on morals alone. Man is also flesh and blood.

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.

Most of my life I have played a lot of famous people but most of them were dead so you have a poetic license.

Things that I would say or would like to saw are just easier to sing about and put out there in music.

Thirteen at a table is unlucky only, when the hostess has only twelve chops.

When the dignity of one person is denied, all of us are denied.

Kate Forsyth’s Bitter Greens is an enthralling concoction of history and magic, an absorbing, richly detailed, and heart-wrenching reimagining of a timeless fairytale.

I can play a Jewish guy, another Jewish guy, and then another Jewish guy, and then maybe a Cuban guy. Or at least a Middle Eastern guy. But for me, they're all Jews.

Yeah, I had actually tried to stop acting before I made Dead Man Walking.