Quotes About Values

It's not my aspiration to appear on a reality show. That's the last thing I need in my life.

I got offered a bunch of reality show stuff, but I didn't want to be known for that, so I turned it all down.

Hell would freeze over before I would do a reality show. I've been offered everything you could possibly imagine, and it just doesn't interest me. You certainly won't see me dancing on TV.

No way will I put my family and my life on the TV or be involved with something like a dating show or any type of reality show.

I've turned down millions of dollars to go on reality TV. It's an absolute no-go.

Don't go watching reality TV thinking your going to find a role model.

What society doesn't realize is that in the past, ordinary people respected learning. They respected books, and they don't now, or not very much. That whole respect for serious literature and learning has disappeared.

I wouldn't be honest if I told you that in some moment of my life I had a lot of rage - probably hate - I'm not sure of hate, but rage. But you know what happens is that then you realize you cannot do to others what you think nobody has to do to anybody. Life is important for me and not any kind of life, quality too of life.

I grew up conservative because my mum was a conservative, and when I finally realized what conservatives were, I changed my mind immediately.

It's insidious how Hollywood warps your values without you even realizing that it's happening to you. You get a little whiff of success and it whets your appetite, and before you know it you're going right down the road they've laid out for you.

What really matters is what's on the inside.

One of the great problems of philosophy is the relationship between the realm of knowledge and the realm of values. Knowledge is what is; values are what ought to be.

What's the reason I'm playing basketball? I do it because I love it, I do it because of my family, and that's it. I don't do it because of the money. I don't do it because of the fame. I just do it because I love it, and I do it for my family because my family enjoys it.

The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason.

Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.

Good parents, who are able to maintain the affection and respect of their children and whose offspring admire them and value their good opinion, can be reasonably certain that their values and ways of socialized behaving will be adopted by the next generation.

Those who joined us for selfish personal reasons, for a career or other motives will be the ones to leave.

I think we're doing the right things for the right reasons. We're not doing it to sell products. We're not doing it to be popular. We're doing it because in our judgment these stories are important to do, and at this length and this much depth.

The three things I said when I came out of school were I want to work consistently, I want to do good work and I want to be paid fairly, and that's happened. But I didn't become an actress for the money. I do it for other reasons.

I'm definitely not the type to have a sing-off. I'm not catty like that. I sing for the right reasons.

Don't shift because fashion has shifted. Don't move from the original ethic you had, the original reasons. They're part and parcel of you.

My grandma was very traditional, but she herself is a rebel of that culture.

In my parents' generation, rebellion was pop culture. It's not anymore.

I don't believe in rebound relationships and happy sex. Everything has to happen with dignity.