From Patricia Potter:

Retiree Patricia Potter wanted to know: “Do you believe that your own spirituality, your own faith, helped you succeed in the role of Monica whereas somebody without the Lord might not have been able to pull it off?”

“Yeah that’s a great question,” answered Downey, “You know, I believe so. I think that as a believer, it was a privilege for me to be able to deliver the message each week that God loves you. I think perhaps it’s hard to fake sincerity and so Della Reese and myself, we used to pray that we would be channels for Him, that we would be used in some way that we could step out of the way and just let grace flow through us, flow through the characters and flow through the words. I think that in many ways that did happen. It had nothing to do with us. We were just smart enough to get out of the way.”