Certainly, I, as an audience, am stricken with terror if I see only two people onstage. And one person, I think, is even harder for people to take.

I think goodness is very powerful, but often evil is made more attractive in films. It's a challenge to make goodness appealing.

I was brought up a Catholic, so I suppose I have to believe in the goodness of human beings. I think we're not so bad after all.

I have played a few lay saints in my time.

I think you can lose yourself more easily in a film than in the theater.

We all think we're liberated when we have more of everything, don't we? That's what the media tell us.

Theater is an engagement between the actor and the audience. Film is a different sort of medium. It's not immediate, but in some ways it's more involving.

When I started performing, I decided that if in five years I couldn't earn as much money acting as I could as a teacher, it would be unrealistic for me to continue on the stage.

Beauty is the illumination of your soul.

Evangelicals always assume that humor and faith are contradictory. It's OK to smile, to be nice, but not frivolous.

Every minute of life carries with it its miraculous value, and its face of eternal youth.

Agony without genius was gaucherie.

As for real chicken soup, I have it once or twice a week.

I try to put myself into unusual and difficult situations as often as I can in order to capture the element of struggle in the music.

He has a very strong vision of what he wants.

Was it worse for him, Reynie wondered, to have felt loved and then rejected? Or was it worse to have always felt alone?

All the green-screen stuff - all the special effects stuff - I shot right there in my house, in the basement in my theater room.

Of higher value than any one leader is the cause.