That's pretty much why I went into show business because I wanted to have a guitar and sing unaccompanied, that was like my fantasy of the perfect life.

I remember going to church about four times a week. I liked it a lot.

Sometimes I like to vent.

But if you believe in Christ and that your main goal with your life is supposed to be to honor Him and do His will, then you don't have as much pressure as someone who bases all their happiness on whether they're a movie star.

Maybe I'll learn how, but the only thing I can do is turn down parts that would hurt my conscience.

Because I hate fake people and I always think I'm never fake.

So finally I came up with a thing that felt really pure, and I'm Christian, so when I hear about death I have a lot of hope because I believe in Jesus and life after death, and John 3:16.

That's pretty much why I went into show business because I wanted to have a guitar and sing unaccompanied, that was like my fantasy of the perfect life.

They're desperately searching for meaning in their lives but they will not crack the Bible open.

I cried when I heard Johnny Carson died.

There was a lot of Southern Baptist preachers and some yelling ones but mostly we had a pastor who didn't scream and I found a lot of comfort and joy and peace as a child hearing the Bible.

When you go on an audition it's very frightening.

I always dreamed of being Maria in The Sound of Music.

Now, I don't mind making fun of those preachers who steal money from people, they kind of deserve it.

I think the reason they cast me as the good girls is because they couldn't find any in Hollywood.

I wasn't really qualified to be on Saturday Night Live - I'm not like an impressionist or anything.

Maybe entertainment is not supposed to be reality.

I've never been in the music industry, only acting.

Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God.

It was the best job I ever had. I just left because my whole team was leaving and the new guys were coming.

The bottom line of Hollywood is money.

Are Christians too stupid that we can't write a script, we can't film a movie OR we don't know how to act?

Maybe if I could ever be a successful comedian then I could be an example that Christians can also have fun.

It doesn't make your life stop being fun to be a Christian.

I think abortion is murder.

I thought it was a really good contrast to have a really sweet, sincere, church girl sitting next to the church lady who seemed kind of, you know, over the top.

Movies are nice, but there are very few roles for women and most of them are sluts or something.

I always wanted to be on a sitcom.

I got a gymnastics scholarship to college, fell in love with my true love of my whole life - who I'm married to now - and he was a virgin too. It was very romantic.

I was the only Christian on the cast, but that was cool because we all respected each others talent and mostly they respected me a lot even though I was the only Christian.

I've had a lot of struggles and I would be in a lot of trouble, I think, if I wasn't a Christian.

I stayed a virgin until I was 23. I didn't do drugs or drink or smoke.

Natural resources are so vast that no single individual or business is going to protect them; they don't have an incentive to.

The bronze powder business, however, no longer required my personal attention, and was well managed by those I had chosen as the guardians of a secret, which was long and honourably kept.

I have done things politically, and I've been running a business at the same time, but I sort of joke that to some extent I do more than most legislators have done in their whole careers, and I've been doing it as a part-time job.

Howard Hughes himself was a regular at the restaurant, and in a way it became his headquarters, too. Howard had recently relocated to Las Vegas, so when he wanted to do business in Los Angeles, he went into the back of our restaurant to use the telephone.

Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.

My parents were amazing people who had no business being together - and they knew it.

We mean by "politics" the people's business - the most important business there is.

Slovakia's joining the OECD in 1999 is totally dependent on meeting economic reforms required such as transparency and legislation that permits fair and open conduct of trade and business.

The way the business things work in Russia is you have to meet people, you have to go through a certain amount of etiquette and business things are done just simply by a shake of the hand and whether they like you or not.

I make no claim to being a business genius. You can make so much money in this business that it loses its value.

It costs a great deal of money to do a musical, and the more money involved, the more big business influences the artform.

It's a very hard and competitive business in which you have to fight every day in order to impose yourself.

I know the history of the record business so well because I followed Billie Holiday into the record studios. It was so primitive compared to the sophisticated business today.

Chicago kept industry, attracted new business, became the center for convention trade and transportation.

I have been, and will go on, fighting that damnable, dirty, rotten business with all the power at my command.

All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.

I knew an actor's career goes up and down and back up again. Your standing in this business can't be your whole identity; otherwise, you're doomed.