Pastoral Resources

I think that the consciousness of passion makes you act very differently.

Religion must mainly be a matter of principles only. It cannot be a matter of rules. The moment it degenerates into rules, it ceases to be a religion, as it kills responsibility which is an essence of the true religious act.

I wouldn't say I'm a very controlling person. For instance, when I talk to the actors, I don't tell them exactly what I want because I want them to surprise me. I even encourage them to change some of the verses of the script if they need to.

In violation of the Habeas Corpus Act and the fundamental laws of our constitution these men have never been brought to trail or even allowed to see a lawyer.

It came as a great shock to me when I heard that England and Soviet Russia had become allies. So much so that I thought that the people responsible in London were acting in a manner that no longer coincided with British imperial interests.

The first act of religion, therefore, concerns those things which are communicated to us from God. The other concerns those things which we yield to God.

The good pleasure of God is an act of the divine will freely and effectively determining all things.

From faith, hope, and love, the virtues of religion referring to God, there arises a double act which bears on the spiritual communion exercised between God and us; the hearing of the word and prayer.

Active creation is conceived as a transitive action in which there is always presupposed an object about which the agent is concerned; it is virtually but not formally transitive because it makes, not presupposes, an object.

Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.

Self criticism must be my guide to action, and the first rule for its employment is that in itself it is not a virtue, only a procedure.

If a poem is each time new, then it is necessarily an act of discovery, a chance taken, a chance that may lead to fulfillment or disaster.

Look up the definition of rejection in the dictionary, get really comfortable with it, and then maybe you can go into acting.

I'm not a comedian. I'm an actor who just happens to be funny on occasion.

I talk about acting to students making the transition from high school to UCLA. Kids going into this profession really need to know the reality of it.

You can say what you want to about a rapper in a movie, but look at what Ice Cube has done. Ice Cube has created more opportunities for other actors to get jobs in this business than some actors have.

I started acting when I was 10, doing musical theater. I was a brunette at that time. I was always cast in all the exotic parts.

Things are changing. I've been training since I was 9 years old to stretch my wings as an actor dramatically, but have never really been afforded the opportunity to show that.