What does a Californian make for dinner? Reservations.

Acting requires absorption, but not self-absorption and, in the actor's mind, the question must always be 'Why am I doing this?,' not 'How am I doing it?

Did you ever meet a mother that complained that her child phoned her too often? Me neither.

As for blondes having more fun, well, let me dispel that rumor forever. They do.

My idea of a good work-out is two hours spent worrying about the bags under my eyes.

Jewish Alzheimer's is forgetting everything except a grudge.

Are you sitting comfortably? Then get up. This is no time for sloth.

Chutzpah' is best defined as a small boy peeing through someone's letter box, then ringing the doorbell to ask how far it went.

I've discovered over the years that if my hair is all right, then generally speaking, so am I.

I suppose the nearest equivalent to a bar mitzvah in terms of emotional build-up would probably not even be one's wedding day, but one's coronation.

A tortoise is, I suppose, a Jewish pet. It knows its place. Out on the lawn. It doesn't bark. It doesn't tear the Dralon.

I don't run away from a challenge because I am afraid. Instead, I run towards it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your foot

Learn to give thanks in all things – good or bad.

Where do you go when you're the best in the world? What's next?

I'd once read somewhere that is takes about half as long to recover from a deep relationship as the relationship lasted.

The world is full of broken people. Splints, casts, miracle drugs, and time can't mend fractured hearts, wounded hearts, wounded minds, torn spirits.

Literature, fiction, poetry, whatever, makes justice in the world. That's why it almost always has to be on the side of the underdog.

There has never been a boy painter, nor can there be. The art requires a long apprenticeship, being mechanical, as well as intellectual.

Retirement accords with the tone of my mind; I will not descend to a world I despise.

It is simple and brutal: a person can get used to anything, even to killing.

A World Cup without Zlatan is not worth watching.