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

I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense… I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash.

At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.

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.

Sweet mercy is nobility’s true badge.

Streaming is a really big market for me. We’ve been doing great in the streaming market, so it’s not something I want to alienate at all. Streaming counts now. They’re treating artists the way we deserve to be treated.

Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained. Be honest to those who are honest, and be also honest to those who are not honest. Thus honesty is attained.

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

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.

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.

Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.

The object of the superior man is truth.

There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.

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

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?‘

A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.

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.

Silence is the virtue of fools.

I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night, ‚There must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me dreaming of being a movie star.‘ But I’m not going to worry about them. I’m dreaming the hardest.

Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.

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.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

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

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

I want to be an executive producer.

Blushing is the color of virtue.

I’d done a lot of research in Hollywood and in academia. I love research and so I wanted to kind of ground the book in history, in things that I read that were universal and timeless and then kind of let my own experiences sort of filter through all of this history.

This film cost $31 million. With that kind of money I could have invaded some country.

We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense.

She is a peacock in everything but beauty.

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

Dakota Fanning is a child, but she is a wonderful actor. I don’t know what a child actor is. She’s an actor who’s a child.

The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn’t any.

There are no record companies in Waikiki.

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 TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.

A film is sort of binary – it either works or it doesn’t work. It has nothing to do with how good a job you do. If you bring it up to an adequate level where the audience goes with the movie, then it works, that is all.

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

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

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.

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

I love making movies, but there’s nothing like performing live.

She’s a big-hearted girl with hips to match.

I wanna thank MTV and the VMAs for choosing me to be a part of the show because, on this show, if you not an icon or upcomin‘ icon, you’re not on the show, you know?

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

What I like about Elvis is the same thing I like about James Brown, Michael Jackson, Prince. These guys, back in the day, there was no smoke and mirrors. It was just raw talent. They would step out onstage and command an audience. Talk about awesome.

Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.

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?

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

It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

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.

Political language… is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

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

I think the message has already been sent to Hollywood, which is that this kid’s a hard worker, he’s talented, and people are coming out to see him. And when you have box-office results, Hollywood treats you different. Hollywood stands up.

Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.

I have a lot of friends who do what I do. Either they’re actresses or singers or things like that.

If I close my eyes and think of Hollywood, all I see is one big varicose vein.