Pastoral Resources

There was something to me that was really compelling about that woman, already knowing she couldn't get pregnant. When I made that movie I was maybe 24, and to be 24 and already know you can't get pregnant, that was really interesting to me.

My mother was told she couldn't go to medical school because she was a woman and a Jew. So she became a teacher in the New York City public school system.

The woman poet must be either a sexless, reclusive eccentric, with nothing to say specifically to women, or a brilliant, tragic, tortured suicide.

Look at Walter Huston in The Devil and Daniel Webster: It's an incredible performance.

I try to get the best performance an actor can give.

It's human nature to start taking things for granted again when danger isn't banging loudly on the door.

The United Nations has a critical role to play in promoting stability, security, democracy, human rights, and economic development. The UN is as relevant today as at any time in its history, but it needs reform.

It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.

Well yes so far, I was recently in Germany and they had me do six book signings a day and that was too much so I had them cut it down to about three. It becomes taxing at times but its a lot of fun and you meet a lot of nice people.

Tammy Faye, I really like the woman. I wanted to be her kid.

Church is great, but I found my church here. Hugh Hefner has been nothing but a gentleman.

While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced.

The reason is that a military defeat of Britain will bring about the disintegration of the British Empire. This would not be of any benefit to Germany.

A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts a lover before words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first born babe, and assures it of a mother's love.

I saw Tequila Sunrise as a romantic picture with complex, bigger than life characters.

Shakespeare reveals human nature brilliantly: he shines a light on our instinctive desire to dominate each other.

I love doing theater so much - being in front of an audience and seeing how a character grows and develops with every performance.

It's just, for me, the natural standard: a woman should be able to decide over her own body.

I am always more interested in performance and character depiction, and my direction says as much.

I imagined that it might be awkward to talk to your wife about her performance, so going into it I was a little nervous. But doing it was actually a wonderfully inspiring experience.