I don't know what's going to happen in life, so I don't think it's fair that I know what's going to happen in 'Homeland.'
Only through loving and supporting one another, even in the face of unbearable pain and suffering, will this cycle of violence end.
My mom was a great cook and great baker all her life.
Isaac and I are going to Israel to ride for peace enviromental justice and a safer world for us all.
But I loved the theatre and I was just doing theatre 24/7 and kept dropping courses because I didn't have the time and the chancellor thought that wasn't a good idea after awhile.
I wanted to go to a liberal arts college, I wanted to have that experience.
We did a different show every night. We'd open a show, and then two weeks later we'd open the next show. And two weeks later we'd open the third show until we had all eight running. And it was just one of the richest experiences I'd ever had in my theatrical life.
I'm on the board of directors for Peace Now, which works tirelessly between the Palestinians and the Israelis to create peace in the Middle East and we've never been closer.
I'm a spiritual person, I'm an America, I'm a Jew, and all of those things influence every breath I take, everywhere I go.
I try to get that across in the work, to try to, if I'm lucky, to make this world a little bit better for all of us before I check out. And that's if I'm lucky, I don't always get to have that privilege but I try always.
Well, I'm not a critic, I'm just a worker. So, I'm always grateful for anything the critics say - good or bad.
Sondheim is the Shakespeare of the musical theater world.
The best work I can do is to take myself as much as I can out of it and get it as simple as I can.
I can achieve that by personally relating the words that I am saying to something I have known in my life.
When you work on a text of a lesser quality, as the interpreter or the delivery person, you are obliged to try to fill it out as you see so many people do in lesser work.
You rarely pay the rent by doing Shakespeare or Ibsen.
I'm just an actor. I am nothing special.
Our actions are the ground we walk on.
I got married because I wanted to do something that was more than I understood, because my feelings were more than I understood.
In my prayers every day, which are a combination of Hebrew prayers and Shakespeare and Sondheim lyrics and things people have said to me that I've written down and shoved in my pocket, I also say the name of every person I've ever known who's passed on.
