Pastoral Resources

I want to encourage our people, to educate our people to have the courage to understand and fight for their rights.

My own early crusade for same-sex marriage, for example, is now mainstream gay politics. It wasn't when I started.

I think the economic logic behind dumping a load of toxic waste in the lowest wage country is impeccable and we should face up to it.

I like to play with someone who can cover a lot of ground and someone with whom you can discuss the language at a reasonable level; otherwise it gets a bit frustrating.

When the English language gets in my way, I walk over it.

Defining marriage is a power that should be left to the states. Moreover, no state should be forced to recognize a marriage that is not within its own laws, Constitution, and legal precedents.

I do not support raising the minimum wage, and the reason is as follows. When the minimum wage is raised, workers are priced out of the market. That is the economic reality that seems, at least so far, to be missing from this discussion.

We had a very energetic floor manager and he was always jumping around all over the place. The director would send down messages like, Can you tell that actor to calm down?

I'm knocking our pitiful, pathetic lawmakers. And I thank God that President Bush has stated, we need a Constitutional amendment that states that marriage is between a man and a woman.

How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.

I love it when people say things to me in public and want to meet me, because I want to meet them! Early on, my manager told me, 'If you want to sell 500,000 records, then go out there and meet 500,000 people.'

I wish all teenagers can filter through songs instead of turning to drugs and alcohol.

Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives; And marriage and death and division Make barren our lives.

It's important to me to work in my own language now and then. I love English, but you can never learn to master a foreign language if you're not brought up with it.

The idea of working with Steven Spielberg was very attractive. He's such a master. He knows the language of the camera and of filmmaking, which gives him a great freedom.

I think English is a fantastic, rich and musical language, but of course your mother tongue is the most important for an actor.

There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting.

Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.

In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.