You know, you have to have some inner philosophy to deal with adversity.

The learning process continues until the day you die.

Acting is a youthful profession.

What would my parents think about America if they arrived here today? Would they even want to come? I wonder.

I don't think an actor's job is to be recognized. I think an actor's job is to facilitate the writing in a way that changes the way people think. No other business does that.

My mother gave up a good part of her career to look after me.

The U.S. has done a great job improving productivity. We're making a lot more steel in Dearborn with fewer people. The unions have accepted much better work rules.

My mother was a full-time mom, and Dad started his own business. He was a mini-American dream story. Came from Russia at age 4, started his own pen business in Brooklyn. The company isn't around now, but he created his own healthy little world, leaving a decent legacy. My dad taught at Cooper Union but was never fully graduated himself.