I can't bring myself to read the book--the occasional highlighting of a ripe line like the one you've quoted reminds me that Dan Brown's prose has the same effect on me as reality TV: it just makes me cringe, and I need those muscles for other things.

But I'd see Paul Bettany OR Alfred Molina OR Ian McKellan in just about anything. All three of them in the same movie, however bad? I guess I'll be there.

*sigh*