The real challenge for a vegan is getting vitamin B and omega-3s, but you can get those in a vegetarian supplement.
You cannot be happy with your family while being personally unhappy with your work. It's a Catch-22 kind of thing.
I was very restless. I really wanted to be a part of a kind of a progressive society. I was fed up with these Communist doctrines and you were hassled all the time with members of the Party committee who were KGB, what you have to do, where in the West you can go or not to go.
I adored my mother, and I will always have extraordinary memories about her and remember her, and she opened the doors for me to appreciate arts.
In the second part of life you get rid of stuff you've accumulated.
What brought me to the theater, no matter you're a Jew or a Russian or Armenian or Latvian, are suddenly illuminated by stage light and one beautiful image of dance.
He [Astaire] was not a sexual animal, but he made his partners look so extraordinarily related to him.
I've got three friends that you'd call famous, but I'm sure after 20 years, most of my friends will be famous or work in television, because that's the nature of what your work is. When I was working in an office, most of my friends worked in offices.
So I think that in the beginning of your career you're just looking to work. Luckily for me, my first movie was 'Rabbit Hole' and I got to work with incredible people, a Pulitzer prize winning writer, John Cameron Mitchell, and all the actors involved. So it's tough, man, because you want to have credibility.
You can trust a crystal ball about as far as you can throw it.
We take for granted electricity, water, even concerts. Count your blessings.