Pastoral Resources

The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.

The actor has to develop his body. The actor has to work on his voice. But the most important thing the actor has to work on is his mind.

The ideas of the great playwrights are almost always larger than the experiences of even the best actors.

The actor cannot afford to look only to his own life for all his material nor pull strictly from his own experience to find his acting choices and feelings.

When all actions are mathematically calculated, they also take on a stupid quality.

Therefore, I think that in the celebration of the 50 years of the present reign, there must be research on the changes that the country has undergone, and in the future, it could be used as a lesson for our future actions.

The attainment of the present status of Thailand has to depend on the ability or the actions of all the inhabitants of the country.

For the impious act begets more after it, like to the parent stock.

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.

I'm much more interested in what an actor has to say about something substantial and important than who they're dating or what clothes they're wearing or some other asinine, insignificant aspect of their life.

When a performance isn't working, it's usually because the actor is trying to do something and they're not able to express their idea very well. It's a muddled expression.

It seems like they never say anything bad about actors, they just pump them up.

In my movies, there has been little to do in the way of animal rights. I have never worked in a movie with animals. No horse-riding, no trained dogs, lions, bears. A few actors, but what could I do? We had to have them.

I had moments of my actions and words not reflecting who it is I am - if that defines a punk, then yes, absolutely.

Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act.

In 1862, Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act, a bill opening one half million square miles of territory in the western United States for settlement.

I want to be an all round entertainer, I want to act, make films, make albums, do whatever I can.

Certain people want to see me solely as a pop act, but there are many different sides to Christina Aguilera besides the pop girl.

Our enemies can deal a blow to us any time they wish. They did not wait for permission to do this. They do not deal a blow with prior notice. They do not take action because they can't.