"Why do we need faith when we have the technology to move mountains?"

“When two people - regardless of gender - long to care for each other, to protect each other, to treasure each other, we should do everything we can to foster that.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“And for the city's birthday, we will host events in every neighborhood of the city, inviting all of our residents to share in the celebration of Boston's great epic - the story of neighbors who support one another where it matters most.”

“Only the [Catholic] Church stood squarely across the path of Hitler’s campaign for suppressing truth. I never had any special interest in the Church before, but now I feel a great affection and admiration because the Church alone has had the courage and persistence to stand for intellectual truth and moral freedom. I am forced thus to confess that what I once despised I now praise unreservedly.”

“One man's constant is another man's variable.”

Source : Alan J. Perlis (1975). “Introduction to computer science”

“Unfortunates, who ought to begin with God, do not have any hope in him till they have exhausted all other means of deliverance.”

“My father was a great actor.”

“I quite like convincing the person the broom is their favourite actress. They are talking to a broom and they think it's Julia Roberts and they snog it. In Reading one guy took the broom into the wings and was getting amorous with it. I had a struggle to get it back. He was exhausted when he came out.”

“Basically, if you could get a good trailer out of the script, Roger had no objection to you making a really good movie. He liked it if you did. He liked the more cleverness and ingenuity you could bring to it. He just wasn't going to give you any more money.”