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I never publicise in advance what I'm going to be singing because I never quite know until I start. I often change my mind halfway through. I sometimes throw in stuff about politics or Shakespeare or do songs in Yiddish.

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The real world is far more hellish for all us than any fictional representation of it.

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I didn't think of myself as a singer. I'm an actor who recites words, and sometimes that happens to be on musical notes.

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I got married because I wanted to do something that was more than I understood, because my feelings were more than I understood.

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I don't want people to sit and process the song. I want them to just let them bathe over them.

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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.

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Bob Hurwitz, the president of Nonesuch, the company that releases my records, is a mentor. He taught me how to assemble a script to record an album.

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We must build relationships, get to know one another's children, open our arms rather than close our hearts.

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I think it's fair to say I'm attracted to playing characters who are rather intense.

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I saw an interview that I did with someone, and I was horrified by it. And I said to my wife, 'This is unbearable how I talk.'

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Even if it's a wonderful life, you wanna go somewhere and see the way other people reflect on the world and the lives that we're all living... I think regional theater is the life blood of our cultural lives.

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I grew up in Synagogue in the boys' choir. We didn't listen to music in the house; only at temple. Then I went to a mostly African American high school on the South Side of Chicago and joined a gospel choir.

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Refugees come to us seeking asylum, seeking freedom, justice and dignity - seeking a chance just to breathe. And people in our country are saying close the doors and don't let them in?

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One of the greatest gifts that 'Homeland' has given me is it's affirming on a daily basis.

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My wife will tell you that if you feel my hands before I walk on for a performance, you could chill a bottle of wine.

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

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As a young man, I think I was in a bit of the revenge business for too many years of my life.

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My whole life, I feel so blessed. I met my wife: I can't get over that I got so lucky. I have two incredible children. I can't believe that I've been so blessed. I've had a career that is way past anything that I've ever dreamed. I get to work in all these different areas with such extraordinary people on every level.

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Music is my balance... center of my life.

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I did not grow up singing Yiddish.

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It's what great artists do. They suffer and feel more within the human condition than others. They're not better for that, just more sensitive, and there's a burden to that.

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Actually, the language in Shakespeare is wonderfully musical. You need to hear the music to connect with the words.

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I'm a spiritual person, I'm an America, I'm a Jew, and all of those things influence every breath I take, everywhere I go.

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

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I have the strength from my mother, the survivability. I have wonderful qualities from my mother - but please, Mother, forgive me - I heard judgment constantly about my father.

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If I have a tombstone when it's all over, it will say, 'He tried to connect.'

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I have no problem with violence, I have no problem playing horrible people.

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The way I like to work is to attach personal experiences to what I'm doing, so it helps tremendously if I can write my own play under what the writer has written.

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

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My sense of religion is Einstein's sense of relativity. I don't believe in God. I believe that energy never dies. So the possibility exists that you might be breathing in some other form of Moses or Buddha or Muhammad or Bobby Kennedy or Roosevelt or Martin Luther King or Jesus.

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I'm an obsessive person. I like intensity.

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

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I was forced to lie to my father by doctors and relatives. I made that choice and agreed with them, and I will never, ever get over it. If I hear a lie in my life with my children, with my wife, my work, my audiences, I want to annihilate myself, vaporize myself, and wipe myself off the face of the earth.

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