Quotes About Ethics

You should be held accountable for your actions.

Politicians can and should be held accountable for their choices.

Don't lie about anything, ever. Lying leads to Hell.

Scientists are doing an awful lot of damage to the world in the name of helping it. I don't mind attacking my own fraternity because I am ashamed of it.

It helps if you don't date other actors, but actresses are beautiful. How can you say no?

Being professional is just really clearly the way to go and helps you on the road to longevity.

The Natural Law which God has written into our beings cannot be entirely eradicated, but it can be gravely deformed, leading to distortion of consciousness and conscience, and hence our actions.

I can't be part of what is being done in films these days and hence I don't do films anymore.

It's not easy to be a hero. You do it because of what you believe, not because of what other people deserve.

I have always been against the gangster as hero.

You don't send a man to his death because you want a hero.

When you break the rules and you win, you're a hero; when you lose, you're scurrilous.

You have to do bad things in order to become a hero. You have to make sacrifices.

In Ecuador, if I go after an Ecuadoran, I'm in trouble; if I go after a Costa Rican, I'm a hero.

I wonder if 50 years from now we'll look back, and maybe Julian Assange will be the hero and J. Edgar Hoover will be the enemy of the state.

There are heroes in evil as well as in good.

People who really try to be conscious of what they have done, who take responsibility, to me these kinds of people are heroes.

I think people like to see a little larceny in their heroes.

The world doesn't make any heroes anymore.

I don't really like heroes who always behave heroically. That's not interesting to me.

A lot of my characters are anti-heroes that became heroes.

Very few of my characters are totally heroic or totally villainous.

What is a society without a heroic dimension?

Heroes and heroines don't commit adultery.