I look for a role that hopefully I feel empathy with and that I can understand and love, but also that has that challenge for me to play - a different kind of role, a different type of character, a different time period.
It took me fifty years to deal with the Holocaust at all. And I did it in a literary way.
So we used to look for funny songs, and learn them and play them. And we used to play them in pubs.

