I don't think I could stay interested for a couple of months in a character of mean motivation.

I had that stubborn streak, the Irish in me I guess.

Faith gives you an inner strength and a sense of balance and perspective in life.

Tough times don't last, tough people do, remember?

If you have to tell them who you are, you aren't anybody.

Entertainment is all right, but entertainment with an idea behind it is much more important.

It just seems silly to me that something so right and simple has to be fought for at all.

Gregory Peck is the hottest thing in town. Some say he is a second Gary Cooper. Actually, he is the first Gregory Peck.

The emotion is the music and the script is the libretto.

They say the bad guys are more interesting to play but there is more to it than that - playing the good guys is more challenging because it's harder to make them interesting.

In art there is compassion, in compassion there is humanity, with humanity there is generosity and love,' Peters said.

Science adjusts its views based on what's observedFaith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved.

You cannot step into the same river twice.

I've always prided myself on my discipline as a writer. I do it like a job. I get up in the morning and go to my desk.

I often get asked why I decided to spend time highlighting the mental health of children.

It was such a leap in my career when 'Truman Show' came along. It's always been a long process for me insofar as recognition goes, but that's OK because you appreciate it when it comes.

Ours is not a poor country and even though we are now a poor people, there should be no room for the despondency that has settled on large sections of the population.

Whenever I think about the budgetary problems, I think about the problems of Errol Flynn ... reconciling net income with gross habits.

During the Gulf War, journalists used to challenge government news managers and insisted they wouldn't just accept the official version of events.

Take physic, pomp; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, That thou mayst shake the superflux to them And show the heavens more just.