Movies were a struggle for me - they didn't come easy.
This is unbearable how I talk.
I'm an obsessive hiker and I do it every day for two hours and it really helps me when it comes to learning songs or scripts.
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 would go to war with words, not weapons. I would die talking before I lifted a weapon.
I wanted to go to a liberal arts college, I wanted to have that experience.
I try to say something about the human condition whenever I can when I'm lucky.
I have no problem with violence, I have no problem playing horrible people.
I got married because I wanted to do something that was more than I understood, because my feelings were more than I understood.
I can achieve that by personally relating the words that I am saying to something I have known in my life.
Actually, the language in Shakespeare is wonderfully musical. You need to hear the music to connect with the words.
Well, I'm not a critic, I'm just a worker. So, I'm always grateful for anything the critics say - good or bad.
I'm an obsessive person. I like intensity.
I'm Jewish and I can sing and I'm alive.
I'm just an actor. I am nothing special.
There's not a lot of money in revenge.
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.
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.
People on both sides of any conflict believe they are right, whether it's on a TV show or in the real world.
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.
There's something about singing that I just love. It makes me feel freer than anything in the world.
You rarely pay the rent by doing Shakespeare or Ibsen.
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.
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.
My inner motivation is to make the world a better place; the bad guy and the good guy think the same thing.
