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I'm just an actor. I am nothing special.

My inner motivation is to make the world a better place; the bad guy and the good guy think the same thing.

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I would love for Senator Cruz, and everyone creating fear mongering and hatred, to consider creating hope, optimism and love.

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I can achieve that by personally relating the words that I am saying to something I have known in my life.

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I think Bill Finn's one of the geniuses of theatre, and James Lapine's one of the diamonds of my generation. The two together are a joy!

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I'm active in PAX, which is a gun awareness organization. We treat gun safety as a public health issue.

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Ted Cruz ,when he was running for president, was a huge 'Princess Bride' fan. He would quote the lines and, you know, trying to win families and everything.

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I just want other people to know the kind of joy that I have in my life. I want other people to be able to have fun.

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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.

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If you're sick, watch funny movies.

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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.

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If a movie musical came along and the part was right and somebody wanted me to do it, I would do it in a heartbeat.

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I feel like I know so little, and I just hope I get to live so long. I came to puberty late; it's all been late.

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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.

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Sondheim is the Shakespeare of the musical theater world.

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

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I moved to New York to go to Julliard Drama School. Didn't sing a single note of music.

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In the hands of good writers, you have the opportunity to present both sides of an opinion equally and that you leave it to the audience to listen and then make up their own minds.

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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.

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I love the idea of giving up the vengeful nature that so many of us have.

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

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I try to say something about the human condition whenever I can when I'm lucky.

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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.

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Everything I experience influences everything I do.

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I wanted to go to a liberal arts college, I wanted to have that experience.

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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.

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I saw 'Hamilton' when it was at the Public, and I just wept profusely in my seat because this is a form I love deeply, and to watch it be reinvented in such a genius, gifted way and executed by such a brilliant company of human beings, I was overwhelmed with not just appreciation for the piece of work itself but for the possibility.

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Peace in the Middle East isn't going to be created by another war or violent act on the other side.

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

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Violence only perpetrates more violence, and it becomes a vicious cycle. There are political situations all over the world where there are untold acts of revenge for incidences, and thousands and thousands of lives are lost because of them.

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During 'Chicago Hope,' I never let directors talk to me, because I was so spoiled. I started off with people like Milos Forman, Sidney Lumet, James Lapine, unbelievably gifted people. So there I was, saying, 'Don't talk to me, I don't want your opinion.' I behaved abominably.

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The great fun for me is these collaborators. I'm nothing by myself. Being with these people, whether it's the 'Homeland' cast or stage collaborators, they make you everything you are. They make you come to work. They make you be alive.

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You rarely pay the rent by doing Shakespeare or Ibsen.

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Isaac and I are going to Israel to ride for peace enviromental justice and a safer world for us all.

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I'm lyrically driven, I'm not musically driven.

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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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I'm just an actor. I am nothing special.

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