“People really feel the need to share how the series has touched their ...” — Roma Downey Quote

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.

There's an assumption in many of these cultures that these children are mentally retarded, when in fact they're not at all. I saw how the operation affects the child, as well as the child's family and often the village.

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.

My husband hailed from Dagenham; he's an Essex boy. Me myself, I come from Derry City in the northwest of Ireland, so we love to get back.

You realize that however much you don't think about death - or think that's for other people - you're just an organism living from day to day. I'm just grateful I'm here.

We weren't by any means like the Grateful Dead or something, who could just roll on and on and on.

I'm so grateful to the Lord.

I've been out doing signings and talking to a lot of people, and I'm just really grateful.

I'm very, very grateful for all the support I've had. It's been an amazing journey.