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

Our actions are the ground we walk on.

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

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

So I'm truly an actor who sings, and not a singer who acts.

Sondheim is the Shakespeare of the musical theater world.

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.

The great love of my life is music.

You rarely pay the rent by doing Shakespeare or Ibsen.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Well, I'm not a critic, I'm just a worker. So, I'm always grateful for anything the critics say - good or bad.