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"A satirist that criticizes religion is seen as a satanist."
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"Most priests wish they were as righteous as they seem to most members of their congregations."
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"Only the Prince of Peace gives peace."
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"There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion."
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"There was only one guy in the whole Bible Jesus ever personally promised a place with him in Paradise. Not Peter, not Paul, not any of those guys. He was a convicted thief, being executed. So don't knock the guys on death row. Maybe they know something you don't."
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"A Unitarian very earnestly disbelieves what everyone else believes."
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"A universe with a God would look quite different from a universe without one. A physics, a biology where there is a God is bound to look different. So the most basic claims of religion are scientific. Religion is a scientific theory."
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"The sanctification of political power by Christianity is blasphemy, it is the negation of Christianity."
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"The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes."
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"Keep your hope in the Lord."
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"One of the greatest things drama can do, at it's best, is to redefine the words we use every day such as love, home, family, loyalty and envy. Tragedy need not be a downer."
Family
"Hopefully, as I get older in the business, I make my choices more accurately, and I perhaps know from either the script or the first meeting that it isn't going to work."
Work
"The hierarchy of class in London was rigid. It was like a religion. It still is to a certain extent."
Religion
"But comedy I'd love to do as much as humanly possible."
Love
"In England, it's now Sir Ben. Mister has just disappeared. It's not even on my passport anymore. They've taken Mister away from me."
England
"Fifteen years before I became a screen actor, I was in the theatre. A lot of my work was comedy, which I loved doing. It's harder."
Work
"I've never had to turn my hand to anything for monetary gain, other than pretending to be somebody else. I'm deeply fortunate."
Gain
"I was fortunate as a young actor, to go straight to the RSC, where I learned that being an actor can bring with it wonderful responsibilities."
Actor
"I just loved playing a man who was unafraid of making an idiot of himself in the process of falling in love. I found that admirable."
Love
"There is so much to do on a film set. It is an extraordinarily invigorating and wonderful place to be, when things are running well."
Film
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