As a post-Holocaust kid, growing up in a neighborhood with a lot of Jewish refugees, I had got the idea there were no Jews left in Europe. But I found in my European wanderings that many of them had gone back and rebuilt their lives.
Both 'Udaan' and 'Lootera' were largely rehearsed. With 'Trapped,' I left room for improvisation.
I was raised by parents who really admired the religious leaders of the left, as many 60s and 70s liberals did.
Heartless zealotry, whether from the religious right or from the teachers' union on the left, is always troubling.
When I left Cambridge, I applied to regional repertory theaters in the U.K. and got accepted by one of them... And here I am, still at it.
I am not a Marxist, but I place myself resolutely at the left.
And when native man left off this form of development, his humanization was retarded in growth.
I'm not going to be a guy that retires and keeps coming back. When I'm gone, I'm gone. Same thing as amateur wrestling; when I won the world championships in Olympics, I left and I never went back. Same for pro.
I haven't had the time to plan returning to the scene because I haven't left it.
I don't let the left hand know what the right hand is doing.
When I got hurt and had surgery on my left shoulder, my arm was in a sling for over a month but I could play Ping-Pong right-handed. I started playing and got addicted.
Jo left me a few months ago for 10 days. I get this note: I'll come back when the real Ronnie comes back.
For the first few years we paid all the bills first and divided what was left as salary. Sometimes that was $50 a week.
Any sane person would have left long ago. But I cannot. I have my sons.
My favorite drag queens are Tammie Brown and Katya, so I like my drag queens a little left of sanity.
On my left knee I have a long scar from an ACL operation. I've had both knees reconstructed.
So now I'm left with cigarettes, and I'm trying to scrape that off my shoe and then I'll be done.
I didn't get on a plane until I was 23, after I left Oxford and was teaching at Lucy Clayton Secretarial College in London.
I was pretty successful before Sept. 11 and fully expected that when I left being mayor I would be very successful.
After Sept. 11, New York wasn't the same, and that's part of the reason why I left.
