Sexual pessimism and hostility toward the pleasures of the flesh are a legacy from the ancient world which Christianity has preserved in a special measure to this day.
I love going to the set every day, because Noah Wylie will be there waiting.
It took a long time to get out of my contract. The producers thought I was negotiating for more money.
There's only so much you can do with an attorney on a show that's about New York policemen.
It took the producers a while to realize I wanted a full-bodied life. I wanted to get out before I felt I'd sacrificed so much to get somewhere that I couldn't afford to leave.
I played the best role I've ever seen on TV or film in the last five years. It was hugely gratifying.
Only the patients have to take off their clothes. I think I'm pretty safe.
Let good people sin. Give virtue to rotters.
Being the only female in what was basically a boys’ club must have been difficult for her. Miraculously, she didn’t compensate by becoming hard or quarrelsome. She was still a girl, a slight lovely girl who lay in bed and ate chocolates, a girl whose hair smelled like hyacinth and whose scarves fluttered jauntily in the breeze. But strange and marvelous as she was, a wisp of silk in a forest of black wool, she was not the fragile creature one would have her seem.
One king, one law, one faith.
I read here and there in books, enjoying the examples and ignoring the argument.