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“I'm an obsessive person. I like intensity.”
“I encourage all men - and all women who love their men - to make sure to get out every year, from the age of 50 on, and have PSA and DRE tests. With early detection, you can have an early cure.”
“I didn't live far from where Leopold and Loeb lived on Chicago's South Side, so I had heard about them as a kid.”
“I did not grow up singing Yiddish.”
“Sometimes, trying to make a work of art can be very difficult and very painful.”
“I'm active in PAX, which is a gun awareness organization. We treat gun safety as a public health issue.”
“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.”
“People on both sides of any conflict believe they are right, whether it's on a TV show or in the real world.”
“Sondheim is the Shakespeare of the musical theater world.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Singing in Yiddish was a great thrill for me and came about through Joe Papp, the founder of The Public Theater.”
“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.”
“Everything I experience influences everything I do.”
“Music is my balance... center of my life.”
“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.'”
“I'm just an actor. I am nothing special.”
“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.”
“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.”
“If you live close to an International Rescue Committee office in the United States, find out how you can assist a refugee family as they transition to American life. Invite a newly arrived family to your home for a welcoming meal. Listen to their hopes and dreams, and share your own.”