If I'm not moved by what happens at the end of this play, then I've completely failed, and so has the play, and so has our production. And if that's …

- Judd Hirsch

Some stage directions you just simply have to throw away.

- Judd Hirsch

People come along and impose their own stuff on plays, and it shows.

- Judd Hirsch

When you get a chance to work with Aaron Sorkin, you don't say no. You drop everything you're doing.

- Judd Hirsch

I was not going to be an actor. I was an engineer in physics. That's what I did: I graduated with a physics degree, and I had become a little bit dis…

- Judd Hirsch

If you're playing the character, you could say to yourself in 16 different ways, 'What if that didn't bother me?' 'What if I knew exactly what he was…

- Judd Hirsch

I don't think anyone can really make up their mind and say, Now I'm going to be a director.

- Judd Hirsch

What's the inside of a shark smell like? I always thought it would smell like chicken.

- Judd Hirsch