I'll tell you what bravery really is. Bravery is just determination to do a job that you know has to be done.
In my mind the city of Ariel is a thorn in Israel's side and a serious obstacle to peace.
Must we be put to shame by much smaller and poorer countries, by Ireland, France, Austria or Sweden, who have understood that a nation's support of its arts is a matter of both national pride and cultural survival?
No doubt unity is something to be desired, to be striven for, but it cannot be willed into being by mere declarations.
Epistemology is the study of knowledge. By what conduit do we know what we know?
After the advent of the written word, the masses who could not - or were not permitted to - read, were given sermons by the few who could.
As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government.
You dont lose if you get knocked down; you lose if you stay down.
Few countries have produced such arrogance and snobbishness as America. Particularly is this true of the American woman of the middle class. She not only considers herself the equal of man, but his superior, especially in her purity, goodness, and morality. Small wonder that the American suffragist claims for her vote the most miraculous powers. In her exalted conceit she does not see how truly enslaved she is, not so much by man, as by her own silly notions and traditions. Suffrage can not ameliorate that sad fact; it can only accentuate it, as indeed it does.
I think American actors are much more intimidated by Shakespeare. I actually want to do this Shakespeare play in New York, but I think it's interesting that there's this gaping hole in the repertoire in the American theater, which is Shakespeare. It's hardly ever done, compared to how often it's done in other companies, not just Britain. Someone from the Roundabout Theater Company - I said, "You never do Shakespeare. " And he said, "Yes, we're not very good at it. " And I thought, "What a terrible thing to say. ".
The Soul selects her own Society.