Janet Suzman | "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."

"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."

Janet Suzman, South African Actress

Judaism, Nationality, Sense

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"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."

"I am tolerably ignorant about Judaism, and much of what I do know about it seems hard to swallow, because it is so grounded in legalism, and adherence to rituals."

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"I recovered my infant Judaism, but in a reformist version."

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"Judaism is a conspiracy against all races."

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"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."

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

Mother

"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."

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."

People

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

Family

"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."

Forget

"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."

Heart

"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."

Character

"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."

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."

Actor

"But I think the possibility of a black and white society feeding each other's expertises, living harmoniously, will probably go along in fits and starts now but at least it has a great constitution now to back it up."

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"I am tolerably ignorant about Judaism, and much of what I do know about it seems hard to swallow, because it is so grounded in legalism, and adherence to rituals."

Author Name

Personal Development

"I recovered my infant Judaism, but in a reformist version."

Author Name

Personal Development

"Judaism is a conspiracy against all races."

Author Name

Personal Development

"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."

Author Name

Personal Development

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

Mother

"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."

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."

People

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

Family

"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."

Forget

"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."

Heart

"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."

Character

"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."

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."

Actor

"But I think the possibility of a black and white society feeding each other's expertises, living harmoniously, will probably go along in fits and starts now but at least it has a great constitution now to back it up."

Society