As an audience member, I like watching Rupert as an actor when he's most playful,. . . I think Rupert is really adept at comedy I think that's where his strength lies.
Looking at art is one way of listening to God.
All great art is a visual form of prayer.
We know great art by its effect on us. If we are prepared to look without preconceptions, without defenses, without haste, then art will change us.
There is no life without work, anxieties or tensions. Peace is not found in avoiding these but in understanding them and controlling their force.
Great art changes you.
You are not a saint because you keep the rules and are blameless; you are a saint if you live in the real world, going out and loving the real people God has put into your life.
I don't think anyone can give you advice when you've got a broken heart.
What people really want to know from their doctor is, are you going to make me feel better? And what they really want to know from a president are, are you going to give me some security when it comes to my work? Because if I'm not working, my family is in trouble. And when I am working, the fact of the matter is, my whole family is doing better.
The transmission of human life is a most serious role in which married people collaborate freely and responsibly with God the Creator.
I think the goal with any writing, but especially narrative nonfiction, is to put the blockade of putting your thoughts in this unnatural medium of print and then trying to reach through that and actually convey what's going on, what you think, and make people laugh and recognize themselves while doing it. Definitely the laughing thing.