I did not want to reject religion as nonsense because life seemed to have no ultimate purpose without it, and most of the good people I knew were Christians.

In my right-wing politics of the time, I held that unemployment was usually the fault of the unemployed.

I'm not jumping into anything fast. I'm an actor that likes to choose my work and there's an element of good taste to my work.

Whether you do a play in front of 100 people or a movie that one billion people see, you're still affecting people.

I believed that English-speaking people had a divine mission to civilize the world by making it western, democratic and Christian.

I loved history, particularly of the British, American and Old Testament kind.

I learned from my Adventist upbringing that the biggest sins were sexual.