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

"I think it's a very central tenet to it yes, it is. I can't bear it, I can't bear inequality, I can't bear bad behaviour to other people. I cannot bear it that people are mean to people who can't help what they are."

"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 now I've got a young son and his interest is in science and now when I talk to him, I see that in the science sphere of our lives there is new, there is progress."

"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."

"OK, well maybe I have to get back to Judaism. In the sense that if I look at me and my forebears forever stretching back to I don't know, whenever there's no sense of place and therefore no sense of nationality."

"You learn from mistakes, but Shakespeare is one big non mistake isn't he? He just got everything right really."

"This is always a pain because it's injustice too and so my response to it, I tell you what I am more surprised or horrified at Jews who forget to be humanists than I am at anybody else."

"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."
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