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

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.

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.

I am not a human being enjoying a spiritual life, I am a spiritual being enjoying a human life.

Show me a man of average ability but extraordinary desire and I'll show you a winner every time.

It ain't that I'm too big to listen to the rumors, It's just that I'm too damn big to pay attention to 'em.

I want to help put some of the pieces together for people. I want to empower people so they don't have to keep going to others outside of themselves for guidance.

For every time she shouted "Fire!" They only answered "Little liar!" And therefore when her aunt returned, Matilda, and the house, were burned.

I thought I was going to be a poet when I was in college, but then I found out I was poor so I decided to do something I'd get paid for.

I've just always sung - just always sung. My voice has always been my best friend.

One of the wonderful things about being ALIVE is that it's never too late.

All world-improvers are Socialists. And consequently there are no Classical world-improvers.

Women are the simple, and poets the superior, artisans of language... the intervention of grammarians is almost always bad.