Pastoral Resources

I think celebrities have an obligation to the public to not just sing or act.

People are people the world over. Some are good, some bad, some greedy and some generous. Nations are like people and act the same way.

This art of acting is a process I love very much. It's an unbelievably fulfilling experience for me and I look forward to building upon my art in the years to come.

Say not that honor is the child of boldness, nor believe thou that the hazard of life alone can pay the price of it: it is not to the action that it is due, but to the manner of performing it.

Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou.

It is wrong to use equal language for unequal actions.

We are distressed by the unilateral actions of those provinces that are clearly determined to redefine what our common faith was once.

I don't think I'm proud of anything in acting.

Some days it is a heroic act just to refuse the paralysis of fear and straighten up and step into another day.

The simple act of caring is heroic.

He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

I've been nominated twice before as actor in a leading part. Now I'm nominated as actor in a supporting part. If I don't win, I'll just wait until I'm nominated for being in the theater during the show. Do they have one like that?

It makes it fun. When an actor plays a character, you want what that character wants. Otherwise it doesn't look authentic. So I really want to defeat Jimmy - I mean Jimmy as the character.

The show is like an Edwardian play - emotional life gets stepped on for the sake of accepted manners, and that's terrific for actors to play in.

Psychology is the science of the act of experiencing, and deals with the whole system of such acts as they make up mental life.

Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis.

In the perception of a tree we can distinguish the act of experiencing, or perceiving, from the thing experienced, or perceived.

The mental act of sensation which issues in reflex movement is so simple as to defy analysis.

The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.

The thing of which the act of perception is the perception is experienced as something not mental.