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One of the reasons I love acting is because I'm so interested in other people's lives, and I often incorporate things I hear or observe into my work. I've become a bit of a 'person addict,' and so I like brushing up against lots of different characters.

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Love, Other, Reasons, Different Characters

Is it my end-all and be-all to become a standup comic? No.

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Become, Standup, Comic, End-All

I do think that the days of gathering around a television set that functions merely as a television set, to receive a live broadcast of some networked programming, those days are probably numbered.

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Think, Broadcast, Receive, Numbered

Comedy lives on in the web and TV, but nobody's pressing comedy albums anymore.

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TV, Albums, Lives, Pressing

I have always wanted to play Sweeney in 'Sweeney Todd.'

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Play, Always, Wanted, Todd

But one sets of grandparents lived on Davidson Avenue in the Bronx and one lived in Manhattan and I had an aunt and uncle in Queens, so in my heart I was a New Yorker.

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Grandparents, New, Sets, Aunt

Usually, characters that are doing something nefarious have some extra layers to them. The general rule is bad people don't necessarily think they are bad.

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Doing, Think, Some, General Rule

We see and hear about Israelis and Palestinians only when they are defined by the global media as 'occupiers,' 'terrorists,' and 'victims.' But we forget that they are fathers and mothers and sons and daughters and neighbors and doctors and shop-owners and farmers and students.

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About, Fathers, Terrorists, Israelis

I found that looking at the Israeli/Palestinian conflict from an outside vantage point was actually quite distancing. The history of the conflict, the personalities, the violence, the distrust, and the seeming lack of viable solutions made meaningful involvement feel impossible. What changed that, for me, was changing the vantage point.

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Impossible, Feel, Vantage, Vantage Point

Things that make me laugh range from a wonderful stand-up like Jerry Seinfeld, Louis C.K. and Chris Rock to my son Gabe, who does great improv work. I also look backwards to the great comedic actors like Jackie Gleason, Paul Lynde and Phil Silvers.

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Range, Seinfeld, Stand-Up, Make Me Laugh

I guess the Reagan era is defined as the 'I want it all for me, and screw everybody else' era.

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Everybody, Reagan, Guess, Screw

Where are reliable journalism and reliable investigative voices going to come from? I love the days of old - the Walter Cronkites, the Dan Rathers.

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Love, Old, Going, Investigative

Even when I was an actor in training, one criticism my teachers had was that I should think about directing instead of acting, because the best actors see the material they're working on through blinders. They can't see anything but their role. I could never really do that.

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Through, Role, About, Blinders

I went into performing for the community. Being backstage with your company of fellows is the best part of working in live theater. That energy, that combined focus, the synergy - it's addictive.

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Synergy, Performing, Part, Addictive

The Middle East is a very difficult stage to play upon. Without doubt, it is a good drama. And on occasion, there are situations so unimaginable, if not ludicrous, as to make them almost comic. But the cast is constantly changing, the audience is often disengaged, and it seems at times that no one is actually running the show.

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Play, Occasion, Very, Unimaginable

Most stand-up comics relish performing 'in one' - solo. They like the autonomy.

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Autonomy, Like, Most, Relish

We made a deal that was acceptable to us. We got paid very handsomely for our final season.

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Deal, Very, Acceptable, Season

Every poker player, like every fisherman, needs to have a story in a box, and most poker stories are completely uninteresting.

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Like, Needs, Stories, Uninteresting

Really, the golden egg of doing a series is that you cross that very stupid bridge that says 'Name Actors Only' in casting sessions. All of a sudden, you become a name actor; it gives you marquee value. That's all that a series does.

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Stupid, Doing, Very, Marquee

I know what it's like to be in the closet! I know what it's like to be bullied and attacked because someone or some group thought I was different or below them... so, I'm coming out of the closet as an ally of equality for everyone; as an ally to hope.

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Thought, Some, Like, Bullied

I met the real George Steinbrenner on only one occasion when he actually came and played himself on an episode of 'Seinfeld.' He seemed to really enjoy himself. I did not get to know him, but the fact that he allowed himself and his beloved team to be satirized on our show is an indication to me of his true character.

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Fact, Occasion, Allowed, Beloved

Life and families and babies are all joyous gifts. But if we do not begin to truly account for our numbers, we will surely create an ecological crisis that will only lead to anguish and despair.

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Crisis, Surely, Ecological, Despair

Many people don't know our famous 'soup kitchen' episode on Seinfeld was inspired by an actual soup restaurant off 8th Avenue in New York.

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New, Soup, Actual, Kitchen

I'm still bald, I just wear a toupee.

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Just, Wear, Still, Bald

I've gotten a lot of compliments on the 'Criminal Minds' guy. I guess it's because the look of that character is so different from what people expect of me.

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Compliments, Guy, Gotten, Criminal

I find when somebody says to me, 'I'm going to motivate you,' more often than not, they're not going to get me.

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More, Going, Often, Motivate

The world of the stage and the performance on the stage usually does not tend to translate very well - it doesn't tend to hold very well - once cameras are on it; it's not like it's terrible or embarrassing or bad anything, but, I, as an actor, would perform a role differently for an audience than I would for just cameras.

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Bad, Role, Very, Embarrassing

Do people absolutely need the arts to get by day-to-day? You can make that claim, but they also really need a lot of things before that.

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Need, Before, Also, Claim

I kept being asked by corporations to do corporate gigs. And I said, 'I don't have anything. I'm not a stand-up. You want me to come sing show tunes for you? I don't think so.'

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Think, Want, Tunes, Corporations

I am hard-core middle class.

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I Am, Middle, Am, Middle Class

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