Pastoral Resources

Being a former dancer, classical dancer, it informed me as a human being just in terms of the grace I guess. Ballet is a very graceful form of art. You also become very aware of your body and your mind and your body is working in conjunction. That kind of helps you in acting as well. It's not only using your mind, it's like making your mind communicate this character into your body so that you can bring it to life and physicalize it.

The Royal Festival Hall in London is nice; people hang out there. I think this inviting, non-exclusive character is very important.

This character feels so much like my brother. He has two children. He has a wife. He works with me. He chooses to stay in New Hampshire because he wants his kids to grow up in the school they started with. He doesn't want them to lose friends. He is his family's hero.

Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.

The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions that strangers may cast on her character.

French and German illustrate the misleading character of apparent grammatical simplicity just as well.

I always think change is important in a character. The most dynamic choices that you can make for a character are always the best ones.

I did that all the more, if I may say so, because I was aware of the fact that there is an inclination to go to extremes in German people, and in the German character generally.

Character is that sum total of moments we can't explain.

The sense of smell, like a faithful counsellor, foretells its character.

To this day, I get rewrite offers where they say: 'We feel this script needs work with character, dialogue, plot and tone,' and when you ask what's left, they say: 'Well, the typing is very good.'

The hardest thing about movie acting is that if you're playing a character who changes within the movie, you've got to do that, but you've got to do it out of sequence, because we never have gotten to shoot in sequence, and that's really, really tough.

I worked with Rocky Graziano and Rocky was certainly a character.

The German national character is a favorite subject of character experts, probably because the less mature a nation, the more she is an object of criticism and not of history.

Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism.

Don't worry so much about your self-esteem. Worry more about your character. Integrity is its own reward.

It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.

Rascals are always sociable, more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others' company.

National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right.

If I'm doing my job as an actor, the audience knows everything I know about the character.