Pastoral Resources

I get letters from kids, teenagers and young girls who just want to be Mac. I've had quite a few people actually say that they're going to become a Marine or a JAG lawyer because of me... the character. I think that's pretty cool!

But in action, one defies one's character.

Because I was able to submerge myself into the character, I didn't have to go back and forth. You don't have to work hard to bring emotions. It all just comes naturally, you're there living it.

By knowing your character so well you can't go wrong. All of us kind of fell into that.

There is always one person on the set who has a lot of anxiety, an actor who is really intense and has to stay in character and holds himself away from the rest of us.

It's the texture of New York that people miss by filming elsewhere. There are layers and layers of character - even in the pavement - that you can't get anywhere else. And the speed that the people move. It's so different from other places.

The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble.

It is our character that supports the promise of our future - far more than particular government programs or policies.

The formation of character in young people is educationally a different task from and a prior task to, the discussion of the great, difficult ethical controversies of the day.

The discipline you learn and character you build from setting and achieving a goal can be more valuable than the achievement of the goal itself.

Martial arts is not about fighting; it's about building character.

I think the qualities I look for in a girl I'd like to be my girlfriend would be the way Lindsay's character is before she becomes a plastic. Very real.

You don't realize how much a part of your character is part of yourself until you are no longer playing that character.

If you're offered something, you're not really sure exactly what is that they saw in you that they think is the character so it's a little scary, I feel.

Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.

Once the curtain is raised, the actor is ceases to belong to himself. He belongs to his character, to his author, to his public. He must do the impossible to identify himself with the first, not to betray the second, and not to disappoint the third.

It is very hard to separate one's self from a character. Sometimes the people closest to me have to be very understanding.

Yeah, it's fun to be somebody you're not, to bring a character to life.

The true worth of a race must be measured by the character of its womanhood.

I grew up below the poverty line; I didn't have as much as other people did. I think it made me stronger as a person, it built my character. Now I have a 4.0 grade point average and I want to go to college, and just become a better person.