Sometimes in the black culture, being raised as an independent woman is misconstrued as someone who doesn’t need a man. I think that’s wrong. I think we all need someone.

In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary.

But there is a difference here: When Jewish children are murdered, Arabs celebrate the deed. The death of an Arab child is no cause for celebration in Israel.

Throughout my life I have cared as deeply about the songs of all peoples as I have about the rights of all peoples.

A screen actor is compensated in the knowledge that millions will see his performance at one time, where only hundreds will see it on the stage.

The love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.

I created the role of Captain Von Trapp.

I knew immediately that she was going to be in my life forever. I didn’t know in what capacity, but I knew that I had found someone who was going to be close to me...

I never play without my cape.

You can’t make people believe in you if you play a horror part with your tongue in your cheek.

If I have one vanity wish, it would be to direct. It’s the only thing I haven’t done yet that I would like to.

The whole time I was modeling, I had a place in Paris, and a place in New York, and I was really single.

In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.

But, when I toil in the field of Jewish culture which I frequently do, I am indeed a Jewish artist.

We Jews have a special attachment to the Book. The study of page after page in tomes yellowing with age was obligatory.

Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.

The role seemed to demand that I keep myself worked up to fever pitch, so I took on the actual attributes of the horrible vampire, Dracula.

I do not know who there is among us that can claim to know God’s purpose and God’s intent.

I know I can act and it doesn’t matter where you come from.

I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.

It is women who bear the race in bloody agony. Suffering is a kind of horror. Blood is a kind of horror. Women are born with horror in their very bloodstream. It is a biological...

In my world, history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought, who won them and who lost them – unless there is a painting, a play, a...

There was a certain point in my life where I had to decide that I was going to take my future and Nicole’s and not wallow in what happened to me because when you do...

It is women who love horror. Gloat over it. Feed on it. Are nourished by it. Shudder and cling and cry out-and come back for more.

Despite a large body of work in films, TV, theatre and concerts, I am viewed by many as a Jewish artist. I do not resent the label, except for the fact that I disapprove of...

We live in a world of guns, bombs and terror. To conquer hate seems a nigh-impossible task.

Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy.

The screen magnifies everything, even the way you are thinking.

I do prefer the stage. It’s really the granddaddy of them all.

I love the fact that we, as black people, carry our faith with us. We share it and embrace it and love it and talk about it because we talk about everything else and why...

I’d like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.

I have played Dracula a thousand times on stage and I find I have become thoroughly settled in the technique of the stage and not of the screen.

Must we be put to shame by much smaller and poorer countries, by Ireland, France, Austria or Sweden, who have understood that a nation’s support of its arts is a matter of both national pride...

We have relationships and know the exact outcome with that person because we don’t deal with ourselves and don’t deal with our issues and end up being attracted to the same person or the person...

It took me years to live down Dracula and convince the film producers that I would play almost any other type of role.

Epistemology is the study of knowledge. By what conduit do we know what we know?

What moves me is neither ethnocentric pride nor sectarian arrogance. I make no claim that Jewish culture is superior to other cultures. But it is mine.

As part of my relationship with my wife and my daughter, and we share everything and talk about everything.

Circumstances made me the theatrical personality I am, which many people believe is also a part of my personal life.

The stage is near and dear to me.

I have always striven to raise the voice of hope for a world where hate gives way to respect and oppression to liberation.

I think that women need men and that men need women and we need each other and that independence and meeting somebody is not mutually exclusive.

I’ll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.

The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

No doubt unity is something to be desired, to be striven for, but it cannot be willed into being by mere declarations.

We’re very open and outspoken about our faith and our beliefs. We also talk about our doubts, our moments of insecurities. We talk about it all day, how we’re inspired by God. We recognize little...

It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.

Every actor wants to direct.

When something is moving you get that intake of breath and that stillness from the audience.

Don’t ignore the past, but deal with it, on your own pace. Once you deal with it, you are free of it; and you are free to embrace your life and be a happy loving...