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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.

If a movie musical came along and the part was right and somebody wanted me to do it, I would do it in a heartbeat.

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.

My dream has come true, now that I have passed it on.

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 active in PAX, which is a gun awareness organization. We treat gun safety as a public health issue.

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.

Everything I experience influences everything I do.

I try to say something about the human condition whenever I can when I'm lucky.

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.

I love my work, I love the people I work with, I do the best I can.

I've been very blessed in my personal life and in my career and I have never been ungrateful for what I have.

Sondheim is the Shakespeare of the musical theater world.

I don't want people to sit and process the song. I want them to just let them bathe over them.

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.

My sense of religion is Einstein's sense of relativity. I don't believe in God. I believe that energy never dies. So the possibility exists that you might be breathing in some other form of Moses or Buddha or Muhammad or Bobby Kennedy or Roosevelt or Martin Luther King or Jesus.

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.

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.

If you told me I could only do one thing, I would choose live concerts.

There's something about singing that I just love. It makes me feel freer than anything in the world.

People on both sides of any conflict believe they are right, whether it's on a TV show or in the real world.

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 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.

My mom was a great cook and great baker all her life.

Singing in Yiddish was a great thrill for me and came about through Joe Papp, the founder of The Public Theater.

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.

The way I like to work is to attach personal experiences to what I'm doing, so it helps tremendously if I can write my own play under what the writer has written.

If I hear a lie in my life with my children, with my wife, my work, my audiences, I want to annihilate myself, vaporize myself and wipe myself off the face of the earth.

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.

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.'

I still have the sword of Inigo Montoya - it's mine!

The songs I love to sing are story songs, from Yiddish songs to Tom Waits.

I belong on the stage. I love how the day's events, whatever you read in the newspapers or watch on the TV, are reflected in the performance and how it's received.

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