I’m exceedingly proud of being an actor, but I never recommend it to anyone.

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...