Redeeming Quotes

"I had a dozen years to act before starting a family then found that motherhood dwarfed everything else. Once or twice a year, I take a project that appeals to me for its redeeming social value." - Parade, April 1, 2001

I`m a whore. If they have a check and camera and a script and stuff for me to say, I am mostly there, unless I just can`t take it. No, really, I do like to work. It just depends on whether there is a whole lot of stuff for me to choose from, because if there is I am choosy. If there`s not a lot of work, then I try to find some redeeming value in the parts being offered. If it is awful, then, of course, I can`t do it. But I have to say, I am pretty lucky in that there are usually things coming in. That said, sometimes it is slow.

I don`t know why I always get to play these guys who have few redeeming features. But don`t knock it. Villains are much more fun.

I pride myself on the fact that my work has no socially redeeming value.

As far as socially redeeming value, I hope I don`t have any. (1983)

`Swamp Thing` in Con Air. In a movie that has so many villains, take a look at my character closely - not that it supports the weight of a careful examination - and you`ll see that I don`t really get in anyone`s face, I don`t really kill anyone, I`m not really a bad guy - I`m just a guy who likes to fly. He made the mistake of landing his plane full of controlled substances in the wrong place and finds himself in the system. In terms of bad guys though, the character I played in Breakdown was a very bad human being. There`s nothing redeeming about that character. - on the question, out of the character`s he`s played, who was his favorite and who was his least likable character.

(speaking in 1976) The heavies in my day were kid`s stuff compared to today. Our villains had no redeeming qualities. But there`s a new morality today. A villain is a guy with a frailty. Heroes are villains.

(On playing bad guys) "I enjoy playing them. I find something human in them, with the exception of Looking for Mr. Goodbar. It was such a slimy character with no redeeming qualities. To me it was like playing Charles Manson. I had nightmares after I finished shooting it. I felt dirty. Bad guys are interesting, even if you don`t like them."

We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.

The Spirit is Love expressed towards man as redeeming love, and the Spirit is truth, and the Spirit is the Holy Spirit. Redemption is inconceivable without truth and holiness.

I used to think that the Civil War was our country`s greatest tragedy, but I do remember that there were some redeeming features in the Civil War in that there was some spirit of sacrifice and heroism displayed on both sides. I see no redeeming features in Watergate.

Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart of life, and is prophetic of eternal good.

He hadn`t a single redeeming vice.

There is a sort of charm in ugliness, if the person has some redeeming qualities and is only ugly enough