Jake Epstein Quotes

Really I feel less keen about the Army every day. I think the Church would suit me better.

I am surprised that I cannot recall whether my desire to become a minister transformed itself into a wish to lead the more militant life of missionary, by a slow process or suddenly.

I was very serious about being a priest, twice in my life. Almost joined the Montfort Seminary after I graduated from high school. Almost went back in the seminary during college.

When I was in sixth grade, I wanted to become a priest.

I wanted passionately to be a priest.

I've twice been on the point of giving up my performing career to train for the priesthood.

I briefly thought of becoming a priest but quickly saw that would be ridiculous.

I wanted to be a priest when I was a kid.

And I was very interested in the priesthood.

I did think of becoming a priest quite late on, when other boys were thinking of knocking over fences and going out with girls. I would have made a very good bishop: nice housekeeper, nice clothes - god, the clothes.

I will be a priest forever.

I didn’t want to be a nun.

I wanted to be a priest when I was really young.

When I was a little kid going to Methodist church, I actually envisioned one day that I would become a minister but I never pursed that.

I'm not a pastor. I'm not a man of the cloth, but I have my own calling.

I realized during my time as a chaplain that I didn't want to be a minister.

I left because I decided it just really wasn't for me, and I got a better understanding of what the Catholic Church needed from its priests and ministers.

At different points in my life, I had grappled with the idea of going into the priesthood - in high school or law school. Where it ends, I'm not quite sure. Perhaps it ends with death, grappling with one's spirituality.

Hey, I was raised in the church. I was an altar boy and a choir member. I almost became a priest - until common sense grabbed hold of me.

Ah, bless you, Sister, may all your sons be bishops.

A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend - and he's a priest.

No, I've never truly been a minister.

I would love to play a nun. I used to want to be one when I was a kid.

If I wasn't an actor, I think I would be a pastor.

My father was a Pentecostal minister; that's how I was brought up. So I never thought of having a secular career.