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Everything I am came from my parents. I don't take that much credit for who I am and what I am.
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.
The biggest public mistake I ever made was that I chose to do 'Criminal Minds' in the first place.
Peace in the Middle East isn't going to be created by another war or violent act on the other side.
There's something about singing that I just love. It makes me feel freer than anything in the world.
Isaac and I are going to Israel to ride for peace enviromental justice and a safer world for us all.
I'm active in PAX, which is a gun awareness organization. We treat gun safety as a public health issue.
I can achieve that by personally relating the words that I am saying to something I have known in my life.
My inner motivation is to make the world a better place; the bad guy and the good guy think the same thing.
He was a great man. He taught himself how to walk again, to write with his left hand. My father was a hero.
People on both sides of any conflict believe they are right, whether it's on a TV show or in the real world.
We must build relationships, get to know one another's children, open our arms rather than close our hearts.
I've been very blessed in my personal life and in my career and I have never been ungrateful for what I have.
Well, I'm not a critic, I'm just a worker. So, I'm always grateful for anything the critics say - good or bad.
Singing in Yiddish was a great thrill for me and came about through Joe Papp, the founder of The Public Theater.
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.
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.
Actually, the language in Shakespeare is wonderfully musical. You need to hear the music to connect with the words.
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.
I guess I am sometimes over the top on stage, but then, that is my personality. I'm over the top in real life, too.
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.
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.
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.
I don't know what's going to happen in life, so I don't think it's fair that I know what's going to happen in 'Homeland.'
When I'm on the road with concerts, people ask me to autograph my CDs, but more and more they come up with the cookbooks.
I feel the most alive when I'm singing. I also get to be the mail man for some of the most beautiful lyrics ever written.
When I was a kid, they used to say, 'Oh man, you don't ever wanna leave New York.' I don't ever want to stay in New York!
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.
I desperately want to see the day today and do the best I can not miss a shred of sunlight. It'll be over before I know it.
I believe there's a common ground in what all gifted writers write. It has to do with their wish to turn darkness into light.
I'm an obsessive hiker and I do it every day for two hours and it really helps me when it comes to learning songs or scripts.
I would love for Senator Cruz, and everyone creating fear mongering and hatred, to consider creating hope, optimism and love.
I just love, love going around and traveling and bringing the music to people. They just make you feel so happy that you came.
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 got married because I wanted to do something that was more than I understood, because my feelings were more than I understood.
Only through loving and supporting one another, even in the face of unbearable pain and suffering, will this cycle of violence end.
If you stand too close to a painting - all you see are patches of color, if you stand too far back, you can't see any of the detail.
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!
We need to learn to accept and certainly mourn any harm that comes to any human being on this earth. But we also need to not be vengeful.
If we can't keep our Palestinian neighbors and Muslim neighbors alive with good water and fresh air, we'll never get them to the peace table.
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.
My favorite word was a word James Lapine used repeatedly in 'Sunday in the Park with George,' which was the word 'connect.' All I want to do is connect.
On occasion, a well-constructed drama can do what no reality or news program can do, what Shakespeare does brilliantly, is it can show both sides' opinions.
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.
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.
I belong on the stage. I love how the day's events, whatever you read in the newspapers or watch on the TV, are reflected in the performance and how it's received.
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.
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.
Too often, we think that, when we have a problem with our lives or our country, that the way to fix it is to take an eye for an eye. That doesn't help anything or anyone.
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.