Quotes About Values

One of the things I love about wen wu is its encouragement of developing the spiritual and intellectual aspects of the self that are actually more important than the development of the body and the capacity to commit violence - which is how much of Western pop culture defines a man.

There are many things that I've learned through the characters that I've played. But one thing that pops up in my head is 'always be honest.'

What's right isn't always popular. What's popular isn't always right.

You really need to decide, if you're an actor in Hollywood, whether you want to be faithful to the Lord or you want to be popular, because chances are you're not going to be both.

I'm not trying to become popular.

I don't make decisions for money or popularity. I do things because they're right for me, and they're interesting and challenging.

I have never been attracted to increasing my popularity or hireability by being on Instagram.

Whatever the Victorians did right in England, we need to resuscitate over here. In the late 19th century, the entire English population were propagandised into buying into a certain code of morals. I would be happy if we could emulate that in some way in America.

I didn't come to Hollywood to get on magazine covers or start my Porsche collection or to enjoy that kind of lifestyle, to go to the right parties and meet the right people.

I think that a good portion of the 'Institutional Left' hates the building blocks of America.

There are those who are value-oriented and those who are success-oriented. However shouldn't an actor deliver an image to his audience through roles he chooses to portray, based on his beliefs in life?

I don't know what story y'all trying to get out of me. I don't know what image y'all trying to portray of me. But it don't matter what y'all think, what y'all say about me because when I go home at night, the same people that I look in the face - my family that I love, that's all that really matter to me.

Hollywood and film portray who we are as a people and what we value as a culture.

I've been a conservative my whole life. There is nothing hard-right or far-right about anything. I just believe in ideas and that ideas matter in history, and that's my background, and that's the way I'd like to be portrayed.

Morality is the least of my concerns. To me, morality in a society that - however moral its pose - is hierarchically organized is simply a lie, an alibi for the inequalities that exist in society.

I never want to be randomly posing with a product or putting my name to a brand arbitrarily.

Love is more important than material possessions.

Your peers will respect you for your integrity and character, not your possessions.

Culture and possessions, there is the bourgeoisie for you.

My nan taught me never to put value on possessions but to value family, friends and people. I buy lovely things and enjoy them, but they don't rule me.

I draw from my family and my friends and I feel like that small-town person. The achievements, the materialistic possessions have really become to mean less. They mean nothing.

When I was in college, my parents' house burned down, and took a lot of the possessions I'd grown up with. That's probably one thing that made me realize material stuff is not really that important.

I've never been somebody who needs their car or other material, larger possessions to say something flashy about them.

I always want to talk about real life, not about material possessions. I've got to tell the story of the people for the people and not for celebrity or fame.