I have played a few lay saints in my time.

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 think you can lose yourself more easily in a film than in the theater.

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

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.

though excessive pride may seek for freedom, it may only see freedom in chains

I love Religion it's the cheapest place to buy Guilt, Fear, Sin and Doubt

From a human point of view, out bodily existence is a fairytale. At any rate, to the inhabitants of the human world, 'heaven' and 'the next world' are both nothing but fables.

Just when the question of how to live had become clearer to him, a new insoluble problem presented itself - Death.

To apply communism is an aspiration, in fact it has never been applied anywhere, it is really still a utopia.

God and Satan alike are essentially human figures, the one a projection of ourselves, the other of our enemies.

If you picture Time as a straight line along which we have to travel, then you must think of God as the whole page on which the line is drawn.

Faith takes God without any ifs. If God says anything, faith says, "I believe it"; faith says, "Amen" to it.

The history of this country was made largely by people who wanted to be left alone. Those who could not thrive when left to themselves never felt at ease in America.

Anyone can be a millionaire, but to become a billionaire you need an astrologer.