Occupation: Actor Birth: May 13, 1956
I am tolerably ignorant about Judaism, and much of what I do know about it seems hard to swallow, because it is so grounded in legalism, and adherenc….
Though I acted in hundreds of productions, appeared at the Guthrie Theatre and on Broadway in Amadeus, I discovered in my thirties that I didn't real….
I was always around people who were in the business from the time I was an absolute baby. I grew up in New York City, and my parents, my sister, and ….
I always think of the character as being me. But me wearing a 'coat', which may be a different way of speaking, moving or regarding other people. To ….
The voice-over world has changed radically in the time that I've been in it. It used to be this rather small, select group of people who did 90 perce….
In my career, I've had kind of a strange trajectory as an actor. I started out doing movies and theater and stuff, but then I had a terrible problem ….
In general, I'm always interested in characters who have kind of extreme aspects to them, who are in some ways larger than typical people..
We must agree to live in this world, with all that is unfair about it, without knowing why, if we wish to have a God in our lives..
I haven't appeared on stage in quite a long time and I don't have any immediate plans to do so, but I'm always interested in going back..
There are some directors who don't like the set much. They like post-production, where you have all the ingredients in the can - you've got all the f….
I'd always admired Diane Keaton, but I'd never met her..
I have a secret aspiration to be considered for a part where it doesn't matter what you look like to play it..
I've always thought that, in a sense, the more specific and sometimes even the smaller the world of a movie is, the more universal it is..
I always did plays in school because I thought it was fun, but it just never occurred to me as a thing to do..
I have two young children with autism. What could they have ever done to deserve that? What kind of a God allows the innocent to suffer? It's a myste….
It probably goes without saying that I enjoy the potato pancakes, delicious hams and so forth that maddeningly turn up at this time of year..
I don't really know of the Jewish tradition of comedy, only the Jewish tradition of not keeping your mouth shut. Complaining about all that is hard, ….
Well, because I have twin seven-year-old boys, I enjoy the gift giving stuff a great deal. We do both Hanukkah and Christmas, so it is a costly, thou….
I'm one of relatively few stage-trained actors who doesn't much like acting on stage. It feels kind of like riding the Cyclone at Coney Island, which….
Most of the time when I receive a script, it says something like 'Rosenberg is the fat, slovenly Mayor, who doesn't want the kids to use the Skateboa….
It's funny, but three of my early films were with Liam Neeson, before Liam Neeson was a big star..