John Guare Quotes

The church is in the hope business. We, of all people, ought to be known most for our hope because our hope is founded on something deeper than human ability or wishful thinking.

I work in show business - there's nothing that shocks me anymore!

Just as many people flee Hollywood as those who flock to it. Hollywood can be an acquired taste.

Show business got really tainted for me.

Scientology is much more accepted in Hollywood than Jesus.

I was brought up Catholic and know the stench of the Catholic Church. I moved away from religion early, but the impression remains.

True friendships don't fade in Hollywood, as so many myths about show business would have you insist.

Los Angeles is such a town of show business, and I'm a terrible celebrity. I find it difficult - it's the beast that must be fed. There's this big wheel of pictures and articles that goes around, and you get pinned on it.

The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.

I don't hang out with agents and producers and I'm not into the business side at all.

I'm very leery of show business, having been in Los Angeles for the last 10 years. Buzz is a dangerous thing that I've heard applied to a lot of people that I've since not heard of again.

After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.

I was always in show business but in many ways was not really of show business. I didn't move in show business circles, particularly, still don't do it.

I don't have any superstitions, because I am a Christian.

I go to the Catholic Church. God is an important part of my life. If he was not, I don't think I could have survived.

Hollywood, America's greatest modern contribution to world culture, is a business, a religion, an art form, and a state of mind.

The fact that they let me in a movie with Gene Hackman has left me with no faith in show buisness.

People don't talk about religion a lot in Hollywood because it's not an incredibly safe place to do it.

You must believe in God, in spite of what the clergy say.

When contrasted with the much longer time that life has been present, the course of Christianity thus far is but a brief moment.

Growing up in a New Jersey suburb, my Catholic faith was an important part of my young life, shaping the way I approached the world.

I don't even take myself seriously, so how could I possibly take Hollywood seriously?

As I got older, I had a bunch of friends that were various teen stars. I've always known people in the spotlight and people who just grew up in L.A. and had nothing to do with the industry. It's not a glamorous thing to me. It's just a different type of business.

My father's a Southern Baptist minister. I wasn't lighting cars on fire; I just wasn't.

It's so crazy in Hollywood.