Moralist Quotes

(on Errol Flynn) Errol Flynn was a joy, a lovely man, and most of the talk about him is nothing but rumor by people who didn`t even know him. He loved to talk about how much he could drink and the women he`d made love to, but most of it was just the rationalizations of a disappointed moralist. He was the hardest-working, most down-to-earth actor I have ever worked with.

After xXx (2002) came out, because of all the publicity, I was wearing Prada and going to the gym, and I had an agent in L.A. and all this shit that I`ve avoided for years. I felt that was expected of me, that I had to be a sexy bombshell. I started receiving all these offers for these kick-ass chick sort of roles. But it didn`t make me very happy, to tell the truth, and after giving birth, it all felt different. I don`t mean to sound like a bourgeois moralist, but it`s true - I started thinking, "What is Anna (her daughter) going to think?"

Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It`s absolutely unavoidable.

Someone like Einstein was quite clearly a moralist, and he had a very highly developed political vision and was very spiritual in his way, and there are many biologists and physicists of the first order who are like that.

As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era.