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Elizabeth Pena

"I figured, if I failed, I'd tried something that I hadn't tried before and if one movie was going to destroy my career than I didn't have much of a career to start with. I just went for it. God willing I wasn't over the top and didn't embarrass myself."

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"I figured, if I failed, I'd tried something that I hadn't tried before and if one movie was going to destroy my career than I didn't have much of a career to start with. I just went for it. God willing I wasn't over the top and didn't embarrass myself."

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Donna Grant

"Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God."

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Donna Grant

"I know nothing of God or the Devil. I have never seen a vision nor learned a secret that would damn or save my soul."

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Donna Grant

"There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will."

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Donna Grant

"It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God."

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Donna Grant

"I gave in, and admitted that God was God."

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Donna Grant

"God, our genes, our environment, or some stupid programmer keying in code at an ancient terminal - there's no way free will can ever exist if we as individuals are the result of some external cause."

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Donna Grant

"What I did was take the Jesus of the Gospels, the Son of God, the Son of the Virgin Mary, and sought to make Him utterly believable, a vital breathing character."

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Donna Grant

"There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, "All right, then, have it your way.""

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Donna Grant

"Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from."

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Donna Grant

"Without the Mind, there is no God. Without you, there is no God."

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Elizabeth Pena
"I figured, if I failed, I'd tried something that I hadn't tried before and if one movie was going to destroy my career than I didn't have much of a career to start with. I just went for it. God willing I wasn't over the top and didn't embarrass myself."

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Elizabeth Pena
"It was a lot of pressure, but I loved working with Tim and I loved working with Adrian."

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Elizabeth Pena
"It's a clique and I think a clique exists in every business. There's a circle of people that are guaranteed to open a movie and we all know their names and whether they're right or wrong for the role."

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Elizabeth Pena
"When I'm not working, my family and I have a house in the San Juan Islands. We've been here since '94."

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Elizabeth Pena
"I believe the director is the one that sets the mood and if you have this hysterical director it's a domino effect. I would work for him forever, for nothing. Don't tell my agent that."

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Elizabeth Pena
"Sayles could pull a performance out of a dog. I'm serious. He was just amazing. The world could fall apart and he remained on neutral."

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Elizabeth Pena
"The work is getting the work."

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Elizabeth Pena
"Every time I work with a European director, I find they hire the person that captures the spirit of the role. Americans tend to hire the best face. The person that looks more like the role, whether they can perform the role or not is a bonus."

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Elizabeth Pena
"When I got Jacob's Latter, I was nervous because I felt I wasn't allowed to fail. I felt that they were waiting for one little failure and that would prove them right and I'd be,"out of there.""

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Elizabeth Pena
"I love acting. When I'm acting I feel like I'm on vacation. I'm just having a wonderful time. The nightmare is just getting the work to happen."

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