Pastoral Resources

I do not feel certain until I have confronted my initial solution with other solutions - although in fact the first solution often proves to be the right one.

The mere fact of an American being present could help save the lives of innocent people. That's why I believe in the importance of bearing witness, to become a voice for the voiceless.

I can't get no satisfaction.

Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done.

Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them.

These then are my last words to you. Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

Belief creates the actual fact.

The interesting part of the process is developing the character, you know, why did he become that? Why is the guy a murderer, or why is this guy a pervert, or whatever he is. So that's the fun part for me to delve into the abyss.

Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout.

I'm a character actor, so I don't take the hit if the movie's bad, the lead does. So, I don't want to be the lead. He takes the hit, I don't.

No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better.

I did 125 films, and over 100 television shows, and you've never seen the same character twice.

One of the surest signs of the estimated changes in the consciousness of the American proletariat is to be found in the character of the demands now being put forward by the leadership.

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?

Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self-conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations of the earth are in a conspiracy to under value them.