Amy Adams Quotes

I come from a strong religious background, and I had a very conservative upbringing. So I was nervous, and confused. Here I was wanting to be Whitney Houston, so why did I have to dress in lingerie to do that? I didn't get it.

I was raised a Catholic, so I can even feel a little, you know, embarrassed or guilty if I'm really offending people's sensibilities. To a degree.

What matters to me is my own estimation, and I'm very tough on myself. I need to be proud of what I've done and I work hard for it. I had a very Christian upbringing... lots of guilt. A good thing, It keeps you sane.

I should have worked harder in my life. I suffer from a guilt complex.

To the extent that I come from a deeply religious tradition and have been contending with those beginnings all of my life - that constitutes the subject of much of my early fiction.

I can't help being Christian because I was brought up in Britain, and the morality of Christianity is part of the fabric of this country.

Religion was a part of our home life when I was growing up. I attended Catholic school. It was a good education - for the spiritual end, as well as for its discipline.

I try to live my life with grace and through grace even though I don't particularly believe in the divine - and that's a direct result of my having been raised Catholic.

I grew up Catholic, so I feel guilty about everything.

I was brought up as a Catholic. I've got A-level guilt.

Guilt is an emotion that is never very far away from Rick Grimes. He's a man that shoulders the responsibility, and it's one of the forces that keeps pushing him on.

My faith informs everything I think and do. It's part of my value system.

I derive a lot of the values that I try to bring into the public sphere from my private faith.

If our faith is the most important part of our lives, then our religious views influence every other part of our lives, including our political views.

You make one mistake and you feel like the worst person in the world.

I'd grown up very Catholic, parochial school, and Warlock was a way of working a lot of things out.

The mere acknowledgment that 'God is watching' can act as a trap, fueling bad behavior, corruption, and guilt, all remedied by God's forgiveness. No personal responsibility is needed - someone on the outside sees whatever we're doing and makes it all OK.

I came from a religious, homeschooled background; I had conventional views across the board.

I was raised Catholic in a very religious family.

I connected to this idea of faith and spirituality and religion and Christianity being a very strong crux of who I am at the core and how a lot of what we think and believe is based around our spiritual beliefs.

Faith is important, even if you're not religious. You need to have beliefs in people or things.

Everything is my fault when you're me. I don't know why.

I was raised in an intensely religious household and I think the influence shows through my music.

I'd had a strict religious education.

I grew up with the Bible education, and my values come from there.