I Am A Fan Of Rehearsal. I

I Did Actually Sit Down With A Blank Sheet Of Paper Once. I Think The Phone Rang And That Was The End Of My Literary Career.

I Don't Seem To Be Able To Learn From Experience Or Anything Useful. History Doesn't Help Me. Precedents Don't Inform My Experience.

Anti-semitism And Fascism Have A Long, Mysterious, Bewildering, Poisonous And Vile History And It's Not Exclusive To The Germans.

A Way Of Describing Performances That I Admire Is That There Is An Absence Of Careerism. It's A Clumsy Way Of Describing It But It Sort Of Does It For Me.

You Tell Yourself That You're Not Auditioning But Of Course You Work Like Crazy, And You Prepare Like Mad. And You Think, "well, I Won't Get That Job. But Maybe They'll Have Another Job Sometime, And They'll Remember That I Was Good."