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.

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.

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.

Each time a flower blooms, the world is reminded that there is beauty in new beginnings.

I think, to be happy is to be interested and engaged.

I was blessed with certain gifts and talents and God gave them to me to be the best person I can be and to have a positive impact on other people.

My father was against the death penalty, and that was hard in the Son of Sam summer when fear was driving the desire for the death penalty.

A stopped clock is correct twice a day, but a sundial can be used to stab someone, even at nighttime.

Set fire to the broken pieces; start anew.

But every age deserves its fashion and its forms, and no one can control what survives.

Art is an artificial organization of experience.

The majority of short term trading results are just random. In the long term the money ends up with those that can trade and manage risk.

The human brain is the god of technological innovation.