It was always acting, singing and dancing that I loved.

The story about me, apocryphal or not, is that I could sing before I spoke. My parents went into bedroom one day and there I was standing in the crib singing God Bless America.

I didn't want to do anything my mother wanted me to do so surely I wasn't going to sing for her.

Making a film of a work you've played for six weeks gives you intimate knowledge of the character. By the time you go in front of the camera you've worked out the behavior and life of a character.

We do a lot of shows for young people who have probably never been to the theater before and they are learning about the Holocaust, which unhappily, many of them do not know about.

Thank God that I am not over 75 so that James Earl Jones knows who the hell I am.

Talking about auditions, you never know what anyone else is thinking.

Life has no limits. We are limited by our expectations.

The trick in minimizing dark moments, no matter how tragic they may be, is to have ambitions placed far beyond them.

Our whole life is but a greater and longer childhood.

I am an obsessive rewriter, doing one draft and then another and another, usually five. In a way, I have nothing to say, but a great deal to add.

James - "Are you paying attention or just trying to make me look like an idoit?" Elizabeth - "Oh, I'm definately paying attention. If you look like an idiot it has nothing to do with me.

Collaborate with people you can learn from

One should never lose hope. Homosexuality can strike any straight man at any age.

The rights of the individual are greatly prized in the developed world, but in many other regions they are considered a luxury reserved for the impossibly wealthy.

Kids; 10 seconds of joy, 30 years of misery