The great love of my life is music.
Movies were a struggle for me - they didn't come easy.
I have no problem with violence, I have no problem playing horrible people.
I think it's fair to say I'm attracted to playing characters who are rather intense.
I'm an obsessive person. I like intensity.
I'm Jewish and I can sing and I'm alive.
I desperately want to see the day today and do the best I can not miss a shred of sunlight. It'll be over before I know it.
I'm lyrically driven, I'm not musically driven.
So I'm truly an actor who sings, and not a singer who acts.
I have the strength from my mother, the survivability. I have wonderful qualities from my mother - but please, Mother, forgive me - I heard judgment constantly about my father.
During 'Chicago Hope,' I never let directors talk to me, because I was so spoiled. I started off with people like Milos Forman, Sidney Lumet, James Lapine, unbelievably gifted people. So there I was, saying, 'Don't talk to me, I don't want your opinion.' I behaved abominably.
One of the greatest gifts that 'Homeland' has given me is it's affirming on a daily basis.
The biggest public mistake I ever made was that I chose to do 'Criminal Minds' in the first place.
My inner motivation is to make the world a better place; the bad guy and the good guy think the same thing.
If you're sick, watch funny movies.
The songs I love to sing are story songs, from Yiddish songs to Tom Waits.
It's what Shakespeare's mission was - to illuminate our thoughts and struggles and bring about the possibility of getting the most we can out of a day as opposed to least in this brief moment we're here.
When I'm on the road with concerts, people ask me to autograph my CDs, but more and more they come up with the cookbooks.
I have never been asked to be in a movie musical. Other than 'Yentl,' which I didn't sing in.
The great fun for me is these collaborators. I'm nothing by myself. Being with these people, whether it's the 'Homeland' cast or stage collaborators, they make you everything you are. They make you come to work. They make you be alive.
