You learn from mistakes, but Shakespeare is one big non mistake isn't he? He just got everything right really.

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.

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.

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.

The wars not over, but this battle is. It’s time to pick up the pieces and move forward.

When you improvise, you work off the laughs from the audience, but when you step on stage to do standup, it's silent.

It was our third game in five days. It seemed to have an impact on us.

Yet when ancient forces stir, many things are woken.

There couldn't have been a better Hollywood ending for us. It's beyond baseball. It's rooting for your family.

Today I was in the gym benching 400 pounds. A-Ry is my witness to this.

Artistry has to define the Artist so there is no other way but to create the kind of music that speaks about who you are and what's important to you, therefore individualizing the Artist.

The turkey has a destiny which ends on San Martino's day.

Last year we said, 'Things can't go on like this', and they didn't, they got worse.

Fortunately, the Canadian people in all their habits, are essentially a temperate people.