Pastoral Resources

Let our New Year's resolution be this: we will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word.

Humanity is not a church made of stone, in which vault after vault lies open.

In my career, there have been three things that were challenging: playing gay; playing a Jewish woman; and playing Chekhov. The scariest part was playing Chekhov!

We're here so that Afghanistan does not once again become a sanctuary for transnational extremists the way it was when al-Qaeda planned the 9/11 attacks in the Kandahar area, conducted the initial training for the attackers in training camps in Afghanistan before they moved on to Germany and then to U.S. flight schools.

Love is the crowning grace of humanity.

Even though I don't feel I need approval, it's still important to me to give a good performance. I'm hard on myself.

There is a one woman in China that claimed she paid $50 to get my e-mail address. It was pretty shocking. I got one this morning from Scotland. A girl's requesting a signed photo of me.

The final test of a gentleman is his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.

You can learn more about human nature by reading the Bible than by living in New York.

If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, an American cow.

I long for the days when athletes were revered. I want to see the romance return to sports, to see people enjoy the game purely for the game and the players.

Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.

I was like a kept woman during my twenty-one years at MGM.

A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done.

It's true that humanity has seen a succession of crises, wars and atrocities, but this negative side is offset by advances in technology and cultural exchanges.

Nothing can teach you what it's like to work on a film set, and the best education there can be for an actor is to walk up the street and observe human nature.

We are all cells in the same body of humanity.

Humanity has only scratched the surface of its real potential.

Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature.

The connections I draw between human nature and political systems in my new book, for example, were prefigured in the debates during the Enlightenment and during the framing of the American Constitution.