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

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.

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.

The greatest journey of discovery that the human can take is not through the universe or to the remotest location on earth, it is the voyage through the human mind.

I liked math - that was my favorite subject - and I was very interested in astronomy and in physical science.

People will suffer almost anything, as long as it means they don't have to change.

As it is pleasant to see the sea from the land, so it is pleasant for him who has escaped from troubles to think of them.

The system promotes to the top those who don't care about the planet.

Ethics is not for wimps. It's not easy being a good person. That's why it's such a lofty goal and an admirable achievement

I like acting for now. But after seeing Apollo 13, what I really want to do is to be an astronaut. I'm dying to go to a space camp next summer!

...everything looks worse in black and white.

What is shocking and wrong is not [Lord Devlin's] idea that the community's morality counts, but his idea of what counts as the community's morality.

As you know, the Inquisition is an admirable and wholly Christian invention to make the pope and the monks more powerful and turn a whole kingdom into hypocrites.