I was warned not to do it. Actors who play Jesus are supposed to have a hard time getting other roles to follow, but I felt this was a myth. After all, how can you be typecast as Christ?

I love doing motion pictures and expect to be as busy as I want to be in them.

We had to be parents by long distance, which is far from satisfactory.

When it comes to turning out movies, I'm for Hollywood.

I doubt if the public thought of me as Christ when they next saw me as Temple Houston on television.

There's a way out of any cage, and I'll find it!

There just arent that many Jesus roles around.

The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.

I must have been yearning for some Jewish content beyond my genetic makeup because soon after my 21st birthday, I noticed I was no longer dating WASPs.

Country music especially can get very formulaic - you know, you have to have your verses and a bridge and a chorus, and a lot of the songs are written as just plain and simple poetry on the road.

The security and the future of Jordan is hand-in-hand with the future of the Palestinians and the Israelis.

The evils of mortals are manifold; nowhere is trouble of the same wing seen.

Sometimes you can do Shakespeare and you're still not an actor.

The world is vast, beautiful, and fascinating, even awe-inspiring - but impersonal. It demands nothing of me, and allows me to demand nothing of it.

If you don't look like an airbrushed model ... you have to look past it. You look how you look. What are you going to do?

No crime is vulgar, but all vulgarity is crime.

I would like to say that I helped out our men in uniform, but the truth is I probably just grumbled at the noise.