Calling is not only a matter of being and doing what we are but also of becoming what we are not yet but are called by God to be.

An actor is totally vulnerable. His total personality is exposed to critical judgment - his intellect, his bearing, his diction, his whole appearance. In short, his ego.

I live before the audience of One-before others I have nothing to gain, nothing to lose, nothing to prove.

Freedom is not the permission to do what you like. It's the power to do what you ought.

Either we conform our desires to the truth or we conform the truth to our desires.

Christianity is the only religion whose God bears the scars of evil.

An actor is at his best a kind of unfrocked priest who, for an hour or two, can call on heaven and hell to mesmerize a group of innocents.

I spend a lot of time upside down. It increases the blood flow to the brain, so it really helps your creativity.

Jesus made clear that the Kingdom of God is organic and not organizational. It grows like a seed and it works like leaven: secretly, invisibly, surprisingly, and irresistibly.

In our day it's worse to judge evil than to do evil.

What is undeniable is that when comforts and convenience sap our energies and idealism, inactivity secretes sloth in to our minds like a poison in the blood.

Sometimes, remembering hurts too much.

Christianity is a religion in a rush.

There are memories I am better off without. Things better lost forever.

You've been away from home too long if you can get lost on the way from the harbor to the palace.

The thing is, I hate political comedy. I personally loathe it.

I think writing for me has always been a matter of fear. Writing is fear and not writing is fear. I am afraid of writing and then I'm afraid of not writing.

Theres plenty of great independent films to do, but you cant support yourself making independent film as an actress.

It is a happy coincidence between what my constituents believe and my interests.

He that visits the sick in hopes of a legacy, but is never so friendly in all other cases, I look upon him as being no better than a raven that watches a weak sheep only to peck out its eyes.

We're not talking about a few rooms here with delicate personal matters involved.