I think goodness is very powerful, but often evil is made more attractive in films. It's a challenge to make goodness appealing.

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 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.

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.

As I count my blessings, I feel God's Loving Hands touching each of them.

More of your conversation would infect my brain.

If you can learn from hard knocks you can also learn from soft touches.

From here on out, there's just reality. I think that's what maturity is: a stoic response to endless reality. But then, what do I know?

The belly is the reason that man does not easily mistake himself for a god.

We must be for ourselves in the long run; the mild and generous are only more justly selfish than the domineering.

Those who pursue a worldy life - who try to get others to do what they want, to peform for them, who use and abuse in the name of their own happiness - are miserable.

[W]hat counts is that one perceives excellence and dares to give it expression, which sounds little but is in fact a great deal.

Success will smile at the man who refuses to lie down at the corridor of failure.

The great advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science or literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.