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

Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.

I personally don’t like to go see romantic comedies. But people do want to see them, and they seem to want to see me in them.

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

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.

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.

Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good.

The object of the superior man is truth.

Who sows virtue reaps honor.

No one could have been nicer, classier nor better looking than Dick Clark. I’ve had a crush on him since I was a teenager.

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.

Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.

I try not to go around looking like a hag.

People have never looked so ugly as they do today. We just consume far too much.

Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way – everything is interdependent, not absolute. So that view is very helpful to maintain a peace of mind because the main destroyer of a peaceful mind is anger.

Patience is a virtue, and I’m learning patience. It’s a tough lesson.

Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.

Sexism is part of every industry and must be addressed. But I try not to focus on the negative but the positive side of what we can bring.

Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes.

If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.

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

What’s fascinating is, people in Washington would rather spend time in Hollywood, and people in Hollywood would rather spend time in Washington.

How do people relate to movies now, when they’re on portable devices or streaming them? It’s not as much about going to the movies. That experience has changed.

I wanted to be a skinny little ballerina but I was a voluptuous little Italian girl whose dad had meatballs on the table every night.

I want to try something different in Hollywood, to tell the audience I am not just an actor star – I am an actor, too.

Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.

In Hollywood you can see things at night that are fast enough to be in the Olympics in the day time.

I was born to play Hercules. I have loved and honored the mythology over the years – since I was a kid. When I first broke into Hollywood, ‚Hercules‘ was one of the movies that I – not chased, because I didn’t have the power to chase anything – but always had in the back of my mind.

Particularly Instagram, people look like they have a much better life than they really do. People basically seem like they are way better-looking than they really are, and they are way happier-seeming than they really are.

I didn’t like the way I looked in pictures – when I saw myself on a digital camera, I was like, ‚Eesh.‘

It’s nice to finally get scripts offered to me that aren’t the ones Tom Hanks wipes his butt with.

We do not see people as they are, but as they appear to us. And these appearances are usually misleading.

As far as the general public is concerned, I always tell people that you need to look like a dance teacher like you’re looking for a pediatrician.

Is the babe young? When I behold it, it seems more venerable than the oldest man.

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

In Hollywood, brides keep the bouquets and throw away the groom.

Film is a very tight little box. If you don’t fit in that box, you’re gone. Television, there’s more room to move around.

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.

A lot of dumb pictures have made a lot of money, but that doesn’t mean they’re going to be anything cinema students will revel over in the future.

Ankles are nearly always neat and good-looking, but knees are nearly always not.

It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

In the past when I was in Hollywood, I was like a dog. I felt humiliated. My English was not good. People would even ask me ‚Jackie Who?‘.

Sexism is real in this country.

Honor is the reward of virtue.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

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

In Los Angeles, everyone is a star.

Sweet mercy is nobility’s true badge.

Blushing is the color of virtue.

Meryl and Katharine Hepburn are probably the two greatest actresses of this and the last century.

I’m a bookworm. I know with my physical appearance that I don’t look like the typical reader. I’m in Barnes & Noble all the time, and you can look at people that look like they are supposed to be in there. I am in there, pants sagging, hat backwards.

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

The quote-unquote ‚description‘ of a leading man was once your tall, handsome man with the build of whatever, almost a trophy to some degree. I think now it’s about making a leading man what you want a leading man to be. In this day, you can’t deny talent. You look at Jonah Hill, you look at Zach Galifianakis, you look at myself.

It is no surprise that animation is Hollywood’s most successful and innovative genre.

You’d be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap!

I came to Hollywood and within a decade I was one of the biggest action stars of all time.

The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.