Pastoral Resources

Match play really exposes your character and how much of a will to win you have in your heart.

He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.

A lot of high-level scientists are in fact people of almost universal interest.

The whole point of being an actor is to get satisfaction out of a role - unless you're just vain about celebrity.

The noir hero is a knight in blood caked armor. He's dirty and he does his best to deny the fact that he's a hero the whole time.

But in practice, if often comes down to not suffering a loss as big as the huge gain you made a while ago.

Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery.

Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Plots and character don't make life. Life is here and now, anytime you say the word, anytime you let her rip.

The involuntary character of psychiatric treatment is at odds with the spirit and ethics of medicine itself.

There were episodes where I would wear seven or eight outfits. It took a lot of time to get those together. What the character wears is very essential to how I create the character.

I kept bugging them about making it more upscale, because I felt Abby, through her cleverness and business sense, was a character who would move up. And that's what she did.

My main worry is that after a certain point you become so identified with a character and a series that you might not be able to get work when your show goes off the air.

The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby.

I use colors to bring fine points of story and character.

I feel the need of attaining the maximum of intensity with the minimum of means. It is this which has led me to give my painting a character of even greater bareness.

Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed against free trade and laissez faire.

It was kind of scary because working with Woody Allen becomes sort of a big deal in your mind. He directs in that Woody Allen character some of the time - he has these idiosyncrasies that are really charming and funny.

New York in a way functions as another character within the story, as it does within most of Woody Allen's stories.

We don't relate to her too much because you don't want the heroic character to not be heroic.