I have been so long master that I would be master still, or at least that none other should be master of me.
I think you can lose yourself more easily in a film than in the theater.
We all press buttons in relationships, in our dealings with people, without thinking what it really means. We all knock along without questioning what kind of situation we're in. We may often be in a very good one, but we don't even appreciate the good situations. We're lazy. Or we're scared. Or we just don't notice.
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.
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 have played a few lay saints in my time.
I think goodness is very powerful, but often evil is made more attractive in films. It's a challenge to make goodness appealing.
There is no hope for the aching world except through the narrow and straight path of nonviolence.
The Americans have always been food, sex, and spirit revivalists.
One of the most admirable effects of Holy Communion is to preserve the soul from sin, and to help those who fall through weakness to rise again. It is much more profitable, then, to approach this divine Sacrament with love, respect, and confidence, than to remain away through an excess of fear and scrupulosity.
I was a single parent, and I was prohibited from working.