Where else do you find great directors? Acting is one of the places.
I struggle with the idea of comparing people's work and art. The notion of giving awards or putting a competitive spin on something that is a relative art form is sort of odd to me.
My style was always intuitive. I never used to believe in working on your body. Anything that smacked of vanity to me was bad for your acting, but I learned that wasn't true.
I love my mother and father. The older I get, the more I value everything that they gave me.
I grew up in the Lower East Side of New York.
When you're in a place like New York or D.C. you just can't beat it, and it's so hard to recreate because they are both such distinctive places.
You know, I have a deep, deep affinity for Dr. Seuss.
You watch a hockey game, and the hand-eye coordination and the speed is really miraculous; how those guys track the puck alone, just following it with their eyes.
Part of what I enjoy about the theatre and acting is that sense of history.
I love having that creative discussion where, at the end of the day, you both feel better for having done it. Maybe it's a typically Jewish thing, where you sort of go at each other.
As soon as you know what you're doing, you're doing it wrong. That's what I find with acting. As soon as it becomes padded, it becomes pat.
The funny thing is that I write and I act a lot about being Jewish, but I don't really think about it as a regular person.
Entitlement is lethal.
I went to school in Massachusetts at Hampshire College.
I find that the most interestingly written parts happen to be the bad guys.
I remember finding 'Harold and Maude' strangely erotic. I've always had an octogenarian fetish.
I'm a typically lazy person. It is sort of characteristic of actors.
I'm misrepresented as a scary person. I'm not. It's all about my size and my eyebrows.
I am very good with dialects, but the two that I can't do for some reason are the South African and Australian.