I Have A Secret Aspiration To Be

The Word "hedonistic" To Me Means Pleasure Above All Else. My Pleasure Above All Else.

I Am Tolerably Ignorant About Judaism, And Much Of What I Do Know About It Seems Hard To Swallow, Because It Is So Grounded In Legalism, And Adherence To Rituals.

It Probably Goes Without Saying That I Enjoy The Potato Pancakes, Delicious Hams And So Forth That Maddeningly Turn Up At This Time Of Year.

Though I Acted In Hundreds Of Productions, Appeared At The Guthrie Theatre And On Broadway In Amadeus, I Discovered In My Thirties That I Didn't Really Like Stage Acting. The Presence Of The Audience, The Eight Shows A Week And The Possibility Of A Long Run Were All Unnatural To Me.

I Was Always Around People Who Were In The Business From The Time I Was An Absolute Baby. I Grew Up In New York City, And My Parents, My Sister, And I Had A House On Fire Island, And They Were Part Of A Set Of People That Were All Close And Friendly, Most Of Whom Were Involved In Show Business In One Regard Or Another. So It Was Always Familiar To Me, And I Kind Of Enjoyed It.