In Hollywood a girl’s virtue is much less important than her hairdo.

There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass.

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

I want to look my best for God. So many people have the attitude that if you’re a Christian you’ve got to dress bad, wear an old color, not do anything to your hair, have nothing. It’s no wonder that Christianity is not very attractive. I mean, how many people do you know in a Western culture that’s going to go, ‚Yeah, give me some of that?‘

I try not to go around looking like a hag.

One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

If anything, a lot of electronic music is music that no one listens to at home, hardly. It’s really only to be heard when everyone’s out enjoying it.

When I got into this, I never thought about reviews. I never thought about what people would say about me, I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor, and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.

I did the Ed Sullivan show four times. I did the Steve Allen show. I did the Jackie Gleason show.

Sexism is everywhere, bro. I don’t know if it’s ever not somewhere.

There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

The average Hollywood film star’s ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.

I’m always amazed by the people who work on stage who sing night after night, day after day, week in week out.

Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

Racism and sexism, misogyny and homophobia, they’re so visible. They’re out in the open. When they’re visible, it’s a lot easier to deal with them.

I will not play just an evil part. In fact, I got offered $7 million several years ago to play the part that Faye Dunaway played in ‚Supergirl.‘ I was kind of insulted. I was impressed with the money, but I said, ‚Why are you asking me to play an evil witch? Do I come across as an evil witch to you?‘

The dominant theory coming out of Hollywood is that peoples‘ attention spans are getting shorter and shorter and they need more stimulation.

Blushing is the color of virtue.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?

It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.

A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.

At the end of the day, I want to be part of the same conversation as Chris Rock, Eddie Murphy, Dave Chappelle, Bill Cosby and Richard Pryor.

The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.

Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.

I want you to feel happy and enjoy the theatre of my life the way that I do. No matter what happens with my music and wherever I go – that heart of that glamorous girl in New York will never be gone.

A more secret, sweet, and overpowering beauty appears to man when his heart and mind open to the sentiment of virtue.

Celebrity is ridiculous and silly and it’s mad that people like me are listened to – you know, rap stars and movie stars.

There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.

Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.

O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!

Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.

I don’t care if you get up in the morning and don’t wash, don’t put any make-up on, don’t do your hair, even, but you have to have clothes if you want to look different.

You don’t carry in your countenance a letter of recommendation.

I’m not really a Hollywood person. Not that I don’t like L.A., but I’m just a Northern California guy.

There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you.

A man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction.

Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.

If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Michelle Pfeiffer hasn’t been finding a lot of work recently because she doesn’t like what a woman her age is offered. That’s a real double standard. You get Sean Connery, who gets older and older, still playing opposite young ladies, but it doesn’t work the other way around.

The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.

When you have box-office results, Hollywood treats you different. Hollywood stands up. Once you get to the point where Hollywood sees that you create results, then the demand for you becomes higher.

Actor’s life is very long.

Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.

I’m a woman, and anytime you tell a woman that she looks nice, it’s not going to upset her.

Hollywood is a place where they’ll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.

In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.

I know I’m more on television, and I’m more recognisable than maybe even the players because they run and train, but I just stand there, and my face does all these funny things that everyone can see all the time.

I don’t notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70.

Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

I’m not a chick-flick enthusiast.

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue.

You just wait. I’m going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world.

Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. He and his are not neglected by the gods.

A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.