Pastoral Resources

I'm not going to deny the fact that I've tried pot. I hated it.

I'm not that girl from Freaky Friday any more! I'm a real adult. In fact, I hate children! I hate them all!

But, you know, it really depends on the character. Age doesn't really matter.

I like to take a character and develop it.

Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.

The fact that we're catching more fish per person than we've ever done before doesn't mean that there are not particular places where we've managed fisheries badly.

I like for there to be a moral, for the character to have gotten something out of the experience.

Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.

It is a beautiful trait in the lover's character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.

My acting is still being recognized for the fact that I wasn't nominated.

The rarest of all things in American life is charm. We spend billions every year manufacturing fake charm that goes under the heading of public relations. Without it, America would be grim indeed.

So I sat down with him and portrayed more the side of the character he needed to see. Which is what I do when I go in for an interview for a part I like. As much as you think you're dealing with creative people, they see you for what your image is out there.

You have to come in and be that character when you walk into the room. That's what one of my first acting teachers taught me. You know, don't go in there being Jennifer and then expect to flip and change, because they're not going to have that imagination.

It would be nice to say the rich people, the fancy people, all behaved like bastards and the poor slobs all came through like heroes. But as a matter of fact, sometimes the poor slobs behave like slobs and the great, noble, privileged characters come off very well, indeed.

The facts of life are that a child who has seen war cannot be compared with a child who doesn't know what war is except from television.

Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as it did that of species.

You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction.

When you are developing a character you have to bring so much of yourself to the role.

Strength of character means the ability to overcome resentment against others, to hide hurt feelings, and to forgive quickly.