Always you find that the more decisive event wins so my father's sort of annual decisiveness which came upon him on the Day of Atonement every year, he suddenly remembered that he was Jewish.

My mother was very agnostic. She would never set foot in the synagogue, she couldn't be doing with it.

Now that we have a democracy and you can go back and the airport air is not laden with evil any more, you can actually breathe oxygen when you land in Johannesburg.

Jews have had to carry around their own sense of self in a carpet bag and I think perhaps too much emphasis might be being put on nationality and on the other hand patriotism, that sort of thing.

And I think that that emphasis on keeping a family together, alike, I think it's important.

I mean one of the basic rules when you're acting is that you mustn't stand in judgement on a character, you mustn't say Hitler was a bad man because you can't act in that way.

I find its attention to living this life rather than the next one exhilarating because I think even independently of Judaism that that's the right way to go about life.

One tries to be an observer as an actor and indeed as a director because the small things, the give-away things are what are really interesting to a performer.

But I think theatre in a repressive society is an immensely exciting event and theatre in a luxurious old, affluent old society like ours is an entertaining event.

I suppose meeting people whether it's in real life and actually shaking their flesh and blood hand or shaking the mystical hand of the character all rub off on you in some way.

I still find that a kind of stricture of the heart happens when I see any form of bigoted or racist behaviour. I get an actual pain in my heart.

The very first essential for success is a perpetually constant and regular employment of violence.

Isolation is not a healthy ‘coping’ method, it’s like quarantining yourself in a gas chamber!

Poetry is an awareness of the world, a particular way of relating to reality.

To be sure of winning, invent your own game, and never tell any other player the rules.

You are Gods chief creation, and you are here for His pleasure and His glory.

When we realize we can stop being Jesus defenders, we can start being Jesus representatives .

That's always disappointing when you find a good story and you realize the person has died, because then it's difficult to report.

Any suggestion that science and religion are incompatible flies in the face of history, logic, and common sense.

I do need to loosen up a bit, and that usually does come with old age. That's the intention.

Sacrifice is a demonstration of pure love.