"One life totally devoted to God is of more value to Him than one hundred lives which have been simply awakened by His Spirit."

“I don't think I can play any other way but all out . . . I enjoy the game so much because I'm putting so much into it.”

“I find there's almost no place to put an award that one's quite comfortable with.”

Source : "PLAYBILL ON-LINE'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER with Mercedes Ruehl". Interview with Christine Ehren, www.playbill.com. May 21, 2002.

“I had a career at home, and I just knew that it'd be okay if nothing happened in Los Angeles.”

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

“I’m tired of doing what I don’t want to do to live the way I don’t want to live.”

“I pretended I was living with a television family and there was no yelling at home and no one hit me.”

“When it looks at great accomplishments, the world, bent on simplifying its images, likes best to look at the dramatic, picturesquemoments experienced by its heroes.... But the no less creative years of preparation remain in the shadow.”

“Waiting for the implosion [of the government of Romano Prodi] is risking to turn into Waiting for Godot.”

Source : RaiNews24, November 16, 2007.

“Playing things too safe is the most popular way to fail,”