All Quotes

We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form. ”

If the universe is running down like a clock, the clock must have been wound up at a date which we could name if we knew it. The world, if it is to have an end in time, must have had a beginning in time. ”

Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next. ”

I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty. ”

No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism. ”

Love remembered and consecrated by grief belongs, more clearly than the happy intercourse of friends, to the eternal world; it has proved itself stronger than death. ”

I have a way of synthesizing. That's what I would encourage any young person to do: take in the ideas, the conflicts, and the world. Watch and listen and live before you go public. ”

I'm coming from the notion that acting is an art. It is not a business. It is about building characters, not about selling personalities. ”

I don't have any artifacts of my profession in my house; the Oscar is in storage. ”

I am constantly asked, 'What's the difference between acting in the theater and acting in film?' The only answer I can give is the space - you adapt to the space. But acting is acting. ”