Pastoral Resources

The highest qualities of character... must be earned.

I have been working up until recently with Neil Simon, who has been adapting the character to me.

Whenever there were parties, I wasn't invited because I began to be like that character. In a way, that contributed to the success of the performance.

When you have to get into the character each morning, give it your voice, your face, it was torture.

How I work is I work from of very character-driven place. And I trust the writers.

Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.

Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.

I didn't have to audition. That's common, but it had never happened to me before. Normally, I hate auditioning. I need to stew and think... let the character develop and grow inside me.

If I stunk for some reason, you can always blame it on the character.

For the third season, we do a sit around on one episode where we were in character and then we commented on one episode just being ourselves, so - not really. I was comfortable, though. I wasn't nervous.

It's not like my old self - I'm not in character anymore, I'm me. I'm not hiding behind that anymore.

Your source material is the people you know, not those you don't know, but every character is an extension of the author's own personality.

She had a womanly instinct that clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth of character or the magic of manners.

It makes it fun. When an actor plays a character, you want what that character wants. Otherwise it doesn't look authentic. So I really want to defeat Jimmy - I mean Jimmy as the character.

The character and fight against fascism moved centre stage when, in 1936, Franco attempted to overthrow by force the Popular Front Government of Republican Spain.

I'm always more motivated by the pain of a funny character than by what makes him funny.

It is a rare American who does not have some story about how music has made our lives richer and more interesting, how it has changed our moods, brought out the best in our character and even sometimes helped us earn a living.

I really love the process, with stage, of rehearsal, you get to create a character, and you have a beginning, a middle, and an end of story. And in television, you don't.

While I relish our warm months, winter forms our character and brings out our best.