Roma Downey Quotes

• I also know how to ask people for money and I have no shame about doing that.

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  Topics in Money, Uncategorized

• It is tradition in Ireland that you’re given money for your first communion.

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  Topics in Money, Uncategorized

  Tags in Tradition

• A smile costs about $240.

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  Topics in Smile

• Having played an angel for so long, you can imagine that I’ve been asked to endorse any number of causes over the years. Obviously I have to limit my participation with any charity, so I decided to really concentrate on my love of children.

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  Topics in Children

• I have a home in Salt Lake, and I have a home in Malibu, at the beach.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Home

• I have the soul of a singer and do splendidly in the shower but the world will never hear it. Basically, I’m the only Irish person who can’t carry a tune.

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  Topics in Soul

  Tags in Person

• I lost my mother when I was very young, and my father when I was in college.

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  Topics in Father, Mother

• If you have donated, these children may never know your name, but they will never forget your kindness.

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  Topics in Children, Kindness

• I was reading through endless junk scripts that were being sent my way. Typically the roles were to play his wife or his girlfriend – leading roles for women were few and far between.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Women, Wife

• 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.

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  Topics in Smile

  Tags in Happened

• I’m the youngest of six children; both of my sisters are housewives and they each have four kids.

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  Topics in 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.

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  Topics in Mother

• Jessica Simpson is the youth ambassador for Operation Smile, and an episode of The Apprentice featured a team managing a charity concert she put on. Donald Trump came on stage and pledged a donation.

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  Topics in Smile

  Tags in Team

• 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.

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  Topics in Children, Family

• This CD became something of a personal journey for me. The tone of the whole CD is uplifting and inspirational. It’s an upper. We have enough downers in the world.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Enough, Personal

• 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.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Television, Season

• 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.

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  Topics in Positive, Power

• We’re nondenominational. I come from Northern Ireland, and we’ve had religious wars for years. I didn’t want to create an illusion that my God is better than your God. So our show is a spiritual show, not a religious show.

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  Topics in God

  Tags in Spiritual

• 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.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People

• Season number seven! It’s been so exciting for us. When we first began, we were like the little train that could… and we did! We’re terribly excited! It will be an interesting season for us, I think.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Exciting

Roma Downey (21)

Birth:	6th May, 1960
Nationality:	Irish
Profession:	Actress, Producer, Singer

About

Roma Downey is an actress, singer, and producer, from Derry, Northern Ireland. She is best known as Tess's angel/employee in the successful American TV series Touched by an Angel. She is also the wife of television producer Mark Burnett.

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