Pastoral Resources

I do find acting cathartic.

A good actor must never be in love with anyone but himself.

Courage is simply the willingness to be afraid and act anyway.

When I got to the reading all the work, I was reduced to being an actor in an experimental play that I'd already written. And I didn't want to be an actor.

Till now I have never shot a scene without taking account of what stands behind the actors because the relationship between people and their surroundings is of prime importance.

You know what I would like to do: make a film with actors standing in empty space so that the spectator would have to imagine the background of the characters.

The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them.

The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.

Freedom of expression - in particular, freedom of the press - guarantees popular participation in the decisions and actions of government, and popular participation is the essence of our democracy.

Once you've established where you are, you go to the character and elaborate on expressions and action.

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Act, and God will act.

Actors are trusting souls, and we must go by gut-level instinct, even after our agents and business managers weigh all the odds.

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.

It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past.

Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Why did I spend all these years playing boring Europeans? I was made for action movies.

Young girls of 13 or 12 are great actors.

When you won that title you should know now that you are representing a whole country or nation with your actions and you are now in a glass house or under a microscope and you better be ready to make your people proud.