Pastoral Resources

What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.

Not a having and a resting, but a growing and becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.

I played a lot of character parts in school.

After doing this, going away, trying other things and working on other shows, this character, and working within Days of Our Lives, has been one of the most enjoyable experiences in my career.

When I draw a character, very often as I'm doing a face, my face mirrors the expression.

It ended up being a very good thing, because they finally started writing for the character, and I realized that you have to go to work with a purpose. I learned from the experience and then moved on.

I'm 25, so I've already gone through what my character Ged goes through, though it's on a general scale because I haven't studied at a wizard's school.

Playing a character who's dealing not only with a superpower but having a normal relationship is easy to associate with, because I feel that everyone has been through it.

I think the character does tend to suit an episodic thing, because what's fun about him is that he doesn't care about anyone else, and it's very difficult for a main character - a lead character - in a movie to not care about anybody else.

I would return to the Blackadder character if the opportunity came up. I have no qualms about that at all.

And what's interesting about him as a comic character is that the custard pie hardly ever ends up on his face.

It's the difficulty we had with Mr. Bean, actually, when it went from TV to film. You certainly discover that you need to explain more about a character.

When I was doing Bean more than I've done him in the last few years, I did strange things - like appearing on chat shows in character as Mr. Bean.

Costumes are the first impression that you have of the character before they open their mouth-it really does establish who they are.

The mask of the character was already written into the show, but I actually lobbied for a denser and more complete mask than they initially considered.

Beauty has a lot to do with character.

Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.

Infelicity is an ill to which all acts are heir which have the general character of ritual or ceremonial, all conventional acts.

I love to come in and play with a wig or glasses or clothes. I love using props. I'm from the Peter Sellers school of trying to prepare for the character.

Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character as a people.