I was forced to lie to my father by doctors and relatives. I made that choice and agreed with them, and I will never, ever get over it. 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 love my work, I love the people I work with, I do the best I can.

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.

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Love Age You

If you told me I could only do one thing, I would choose live concerts.

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You Would Thing

My sense of religion is Einstein's sense of relativity. I don't believe in God. I believe that energy never dies. So the possibility exists that you might be breathing in some other form of Moses or Buddha or Muhammad or Bobby Kennedy or Roosevelt or Martin Luther King or Jesus.

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Religion God Art

Refugees come to us seeking asylum, seeking freedom, justice and dignity - seeking a chance just to breathe. And people in our country are saying close the doors and don't let them in?

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Freedom Chance Yin

It's what great artists do. They suffer and feel more within the human condition than others. They're not better for that, just more sensitive, and there's a burden to that.

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Great Art Within

People on both sides of any conflict believe they are right, whether it's on a TV show or in the real world.

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World Whether TV Show

As a young man, I think I was in a bit of the revenge business for too many years of my life.

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Life Business Young Man

Our actions are the ground we walk on.

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Walk UN T

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.

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Time Music Words

I just love, love going around and traveling and bringing the music to people. They just make you feel so happy that you came.

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Travel Music Love

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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Life Yin Words

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!

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You York Want

I'm blessed. I have a 13-year-old girl's eye and a 14 year-old boy's eye. I've been given the gift of sight by people who decided to donate organs. I try to do as much organ-donor work as I can.

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Work Year Who

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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Work Good Worker

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.

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Work Life Car

It's what Shakespeare's mission was - to illuminate our thoughts and struggles and bring about the possibility of getting the most we can out of a day as opposed to least in this brief moment we're here.

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Mom Men Tin

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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Work Love Wit

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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You Yin Would

We must build relationships, get to know one another's children, open our arms rather than close our hearts.

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Relationship Art Us

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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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.

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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.

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I've been very blessed in my personal life and in my career and I have never been ungrateful for what I have.

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The gift I have to give to my fellow countrymen and people around the world, the facts are the Muslim community are our gift. They are the fabric of what makes America great.

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I grew up in Synagogue in the boys' choir. We didn't listen to music in the house; only at temple. Then I went to a mostly African American high school on the South Side of Chicago and joined a gospel choir.

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I would go to war with words, not weapons. I would die talking before I lifted a weapon.

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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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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 still have the sword of Inigo Montoya - it's mine!

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It's very frightening when you're told you have any form of the c-word, but because of early detection, they caught it before it had hardly begun. I'm completely cured and will go on to have a wonderful, fruitful life. I'll never die of prostate cancer.

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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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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.

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

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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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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.

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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.

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Music is my balance... center of my life.

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I'm a Jew. I'm fascinated by our culture and our history, by what made us the people we are. It influences every breath I take. It informs and guides me. Without it, I'd just be a vacuum.

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I don't want people to sit and process the song. I want them to just let them bathe over them.

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There's something about singing that I just love. It makes me feel freer than anything in the world.

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If I have a tombstone when it's all over, it will say, 'He tried to connect.'

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

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I was forced to lie to my father by doctors and relatives. I made that choice and agreed with them, and I will never, ever get over it. 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 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.'

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Only through loving and supporting one another, even in the face of unbearable pain and suffering, will this cycle of violence end.

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The real world is far more hellish for all us than any fictional representation of it.

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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.

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My mom was a great cook and great baker all her life.

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