I don't believe in devils. Indifference and misunderstandings can create evil situations. Most of the time, people who appear to be evil are really victims of evil deeds.

If Jesus came back today, and saw what was going on in his name, he'd never stop throwing up.

Producers are not gamblers. They want a good return on their investment.

I began imagining scenes in public which some drunk would come up to me and slap me in the face. Nothing like that ever happened, but I often wonder if I would have turned the other cheek

I remember those days with Bergman with great nostalgia. We were aware that the films were going to be quite important, and the work felt meaningful.

A vacation spot out of season always has a very special magic

I think English is a fantastic, rich and musical language, but of course your mother tongue is the most important for an actor

Do it, do it, do it. And watch good actors. See what they are doing and how they are doing it. You have to practically participate, I think, in order to develop yourself.

I just feel I shouldn't work too much, because there are so many other things to do

In a theater, the part is mine and I can control it as I want to. In the movies, I don't have direct contact, and I am fighting technical machinery

There comes a time, thief, when the jewels cease to sparkle, when the gold loses its luster, when the throne room becomes a prison, and all that is left is a father's love for his child.

Those who possess time are often not aware of its value.

Poetry is an affair of sanity, of seeing things as they are.

Fantasie is belangrijker dan kennis, want kennis is begrensd.

Don't do drugs to be cool, do 'em because you hate yourself.

The notion of ever more old people needing ever more young people, who will in turn grow old and need even more young people, and so on ad infinitum, is an obvious ecological Ponzi scheme.

Fear can be overcome only by Faith.

Satan's most effective weapon is to take our eyes off of what God has declared over us in the gospel.

I'm not writing for fundamentalists. I'm writing for the people who have been repelled by that kind of thinking and yet who think there might be something they haven't yet discovered.

Inside the calm minds, great ideas swim serenely like the morning geese of the misty lakes!

When a man grows old his joy Grows more deep day after day, His empty heart is full at length But he has need of all that strength Because of the increasing Night That opens her mystery and fright.