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

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

- Judd Hirsch

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

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

- 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

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

- Judd Hirsch