I do prefer the stage. It's really the granddaddy of them all.
From Theodore Bikel
On the stage you're there, it's live. There's a beginning, a middle, an end. When something is funny you hear it right away.
When something is moving you get that intake of breath and that stillness from the audience.
You always draw on your experiences with live audiences to know how to do comedy on films. You're working for a laugh that may or may not come six months later, but you're working in a vacuum at the time you are doing it.
The play is always fresh to me. It's not the audience's fault that I've said the words before.
Every actor wants to direct.
You can't expect the entire world to come to New York to see you. You have to travel to them.
All too often arrogance accompanies strength, and we must never assume that justice is on the side of the strong. The use of power must always be accompanied by moral choice.
As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government.
But there is a difference here: When Jewish children are murdered, Arabs celebrate the deed. The death of an Arab child is no cause for celebration in Israel.
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