A biography for Roma Downeyhasn’t been written yet.
“I came up through the theater. I came out of drama college and started working in the professional theater.”
“People really feel the need to share how the series has touched their lives, and that's been very moving. We're enormously grateful to the fans of the show. They've been extremely loyal to us season after season, and they make it all worthwhile.”
“I tell about some of the female characters from the Bible so girls can be inspired and empowered and uplifted.”
“We work hard on the show. We really believe in the show. It's an enormous privilege to work on a show that has the power to touch people's lives in such a positive way. The fan mail and the e-mail certainly reflect that.”
“When I was in high school, I thought I might be an artist. I was very good at drawing and painting.”
“Entire families are attending 'Son of God' together and sharing it with their own kids. Parents are using the film as a conversation starter to help bring the story of Jesus to life for their children.”
“I'd love to do some bedtime stories for kids or that kind of thing. But with the demands of the shooting schedule and balancing the demands of being a single mother, it's a wonder you can squeeze in anything.”
“I had the privilege of playing an angel on 'Touched by an Angel' for many years - almost two decades, and we would deliver a message on the show. The message was that God loves them, and before filming every scene, we would come together and pray.”
“Individual stories from the Bible had been made into movies, but no one had taken on the arc of the Bible story as one meta-narrative from Genesis to Revelation.”
“We were the laughingstock of that first season... It was with great relish several years later that I received a TV Guide award for favorite actress on television.”
“My dad used to sit me on his knee and read from the Bible to us. We were a praying family. Ours was a family of love and a family of prayer.”
“He (Peter) doesn't know if he's looking into the eyes of a madman, or the eyes of a King.”
“I think Operation Smile is in more than 22 countries, mostly Third World. It just happened that my schedule opened up at the time they were heading to Vietnam.”
“Extraordinarily, I was up in the cemetery in Derry City, and I had a red cape on with a fur hood as a little girl, when a gun battle broke out between the IRA and the British Army, and I got caught in the crossfire.”
“I think we all do have a guardian angel. I believe they work through us all the time, when we are thoughtful and good and kind to each other.”