Puritan Quotes

(about the sex scenes in The Dreamers (2003):) "It must be very shocking for the American people, but what I don`t understand is why they are so crazy about that. I don`t understand why you can`t see naked people on screen but we can see a baby being killed. It`s quite strange. They`re too puritan, too uptight." (February 5, 2004)

I wish to Christ I could make up a really great lie. Sometimes, after an interview, I say to myself, `Man, you were so honest - can`t you have some fun? Can`t you do some really down and dirty lying?` But the puritan in me thinks that if I tell a lie, I`ll be punished.

I wish to Christ I could make up a really great lie. Sometimes, after an interview, I say to myself, `Man, you were so honest - can`t you have some fun? Can`t you do some really down and dirty lying?` But the puritan in me thinks that if I tell a lie, I`ll be punished.

You know the puritan ethic that started out four centuries ago in this country, needless to say - at least for the moment - a thing of the past - from what I can tell.

And my father, being a good Swiss puritan, always really insisted that if I was going to be an actor, I shouldn`t just be an actor, I should know about the whole process.

When they talk about family values, it`s in a repressive way, as if our American tradition were only the Puritan tradition or the 19th century oppressive tradition. The Christian tradition.

The Pilgrim and the Puritan whom we honor tonight were men who did a great deal of work in the world. They had their faults and their - shortcomings, but they were not slothful in business and they were most fervent in spirit.

For a Jewish Puritan of the middle class, the novel is serious, the novel is work, the novel is conscientious application why, the novel is practically the retail business all over again.