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

Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.

At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.

Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.

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

When you’re doing a film and the majority of the film is cast black, for me, it’s most important to get people to view those movies as just movies, as just good movies. At the end of the day, regardless of the color of the cast, we’re all doing the same thing in this business: trying to make a good film.

If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation?

I will never win an Oscar, and do you know why? First of all, because I’m not Jewish. Secondly, I make too much money for all those old farts in the Academy.

Plagiarism is always the biggest thing in Hollywood.

A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.

I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.

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 am odd-looking. I sometimes think I look like a funny Muppet.

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

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

In those days, the early 1980s, TV and film were interchangeable.

When I was a seminarian, I was dazzled by a girl I met at an uncle’s wedding. I was surprised by her beauty, her intellectual brilliance… and, well, I was bowled over for quite a while.

I seem to be getting a lot of things pushed my way that are strong women. It’s like people see Hackers and they send me offers to play tough women with guns, the kind who wear no bra and a little tank top. I’d like to play strong women who are also very feminine.

She is a peacock in everything but beauty.

Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.

Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.

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.

All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

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

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

My concern today is not with the length of a person’s hair but with his conduct.

Stand-up can take you in so many different places, man. So many doors can be opened up from stand-up comedy, and the first one that was opened up for me was acting.

If I write badly about blacks, homosexuals and women, it is because of these who I met were that. There are many ‚bads‘ – bad dogs, bad censorship; there are even ‚bad‘ white males. Only, when you write about ‚bad‘ white males, they don’t complain about it. And need I say that there are ‚good‘ blacks, ‚good‘ homosexuals and ‚good‘ women?

I want to be an executive producer.

I think, first of all, I don’t think people understand Ice Cube’s body of work. Ice Cube is a, and I hate to use the word ‚urban‘ but – when you think of Judd Apatow, and a person who’s launched so many careers, Ice Cube has done that for so many comedians, you know?

Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.

I’m already the face of the UFC, plus the face of boxing, WWE, and Hollywood.

I’m not a chick-flick enthusiast.

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 love of economy is the root of all virtue.

To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.

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

Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.

Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.

In Hollywood, they think they know it all. You, as a writer, are essentially an outsider. Novelists and short-story writers, especially.

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

The superior man does not, even for the space of a single meal, act contrary to virtue. In moments of haste, he cleaves to it. In seasons of danger, he cleaves to it.

Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he’s well dressed. There ain’t much credit in that.

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

Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music.

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.

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

Hollywood has a way of making everything seem like an overnight success.

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?‘

People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.

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.

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

I have a big box of autographs. I took photographs of me and Marlene Dietrich, me and Ida Lupino. I took pictures of Myrna Loy and Joel McCrea in front of the studios. I loved Hollywood. I have 500 autographs and 500 photographs I took.

A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.

The object of the superior man is truth.

If I’d married someone in show business, there’d be too much competition.

I’m proud to be an actor. See, as an actor, you live longer. Football players, the brain and all that stuff, ooh-eee, that’s not good.

Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.

I stopped watching TV because of ‚The Wire.‘ Like, ‚The Wire‘ ruined everything for me because I don’t even want to watch anything else now.